Customer Development Naming Networking Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
APRIL 27, 2009
—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley?
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
This is a customer development problem. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. It’s an amazing cat and mouse system.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2015
BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) Lead, follow or get the heck out of the way. In peacetime the U.S.
Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. It’s an amazing cat and mouse system.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
In class I teased Todd that while the Navy had me present my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk in front of 4,000 cadets at the Naval Post Graduate School , I had yet to hear from the Air Force Academy. And I couldn’t have been put in a better place: testing the Air Force’s newest network security acquisitions.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
When you look through the list , you’ll see big names that we’re very pleased we landed, epic companies we really want to hear from, and people we’re particularly excited to present because they have incredible stories to share--and you won’t hear them anyplace else. Todd Park convened the team that saved Obamacare.
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