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Fly High

Steve Blank

After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

The life sciences community is still warming-up to the value of customer development in the early stages of building new ventures”, says David Schonthal , MATTER Co-founder and Clinical Assistant Professor of entrepreneurship & innovation at the Kellogg School of Management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. One of my goals in creating the Startup Lessons Learned event is to foster entrepreneurial communities around the world, not just in Silicon Valley.

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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

I concluded that my first job was to understand what Cray’s markets, customers and applications. When I learned that Cray users would be giving papers at the Society of Petroleum Engineering conference in Denver the next day, I got on a plane to listen and learn. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

— As a transplanted Silicon Valley VC and now a regional investor, I often get asked, “How do we go about building up our local tech ecosystem?”. But it’s easy to get drowned out by the noise from Silicon Valley and other cities in Washington and Oregon. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs.

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