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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development. on August 18, 2009 at 4:39 am Said: [.]

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

And I remember staying in everything from little motels to big hotels and resorts, from National parks in Alaska to trips in India. Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) + The Customer Development… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Customer Analytics - From Those Who Should Know

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Tips for Startups « The Sharp End of the Stick Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions » 2 Responses links for 2009-05-06 « Blarney Fellow , on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm Said: [.]

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Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply subbu arumugam , on May 16, 2009 at 7:26 am Said: my dad did something like this when he was a med student in india – 1960s – not at the scale that mr blanks played his joke, however. Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank (tags: humor) Comments (0) [.]

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , ESL , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , ESL « Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores A Wilderness of Mirrors » 17 Responses Michael F. It’s been a very, very difficult journey.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.