Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. I lived it as a developer for Palm handhelds and intricately involved with both companies at the business level. A link to it at Amazon: [link] Reply Labnotes » Customer Development: Past, Present, Future , on November 24, 2009 at 4:07 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

That’s in stark contrast to the traditional Product Development Model where it’s expected a customer is already there and waiting and it’s simply a matter of [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be. It’s very different than the traditional product development model.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Recovery That weekend I left the Valley and drove along the coast from San Francisco to Monterey. Crammed into Silicon Valley along with millions of people around the San Francisco Bay it’s hard to fathom that 15 air miles away was a stretch of California coast that was still rural. The bill had come due.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. Poulsen Wireless was later bought by Federal Telegraph of San Francisco. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

We had moved our game development facilities from Berkeley and Palo Alto and consolidated into one building on Townsend Street in the “ South of Market &# neighborhood in San Francisco. And it was much, much better than a space suit.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco. The first limited partnership that lasted for a while was formed by Davis and Rock in 1961.

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