Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. And through it all Louis Yuan my patient and wonderful publisher from China Machine Press kept me moving through the events. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. In the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. And through it all Louis Yuan my patient and wonderful publisher from China Machine Press kept me moving through the events. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. In the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 1991-2000. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010. Take a look at the chart below. (It Source: NVCA.).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

His marketing and sales instincts and skills seemed magical and he built the company into a $400 million OEM supplier, ultimately selling the company to Unisys. If I did go to social events, all I would talk about was my new company. I remember getting the question after missing yet another event my wife had counted on me attending.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, industry meet-ups and events are great ways to meet other talented technical people, have fun and perhaps spark a new start-up. Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product.

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