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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?”

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Hi Eric, Great article - Ive added you to my regular RSS reads. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Wow I think you just wrote my job description for me. Great post, very educational.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors written 40 years ago is still a business classic.

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Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Growing up in New York, the library was the only calm and stable place in my life, a refuge from home. We could go off base and do anything a group of 19-year olds wanted to, like skydiving, but that’s another story. Library Hour s I loved libraries since I was a kid. I read my way through our small neighborhood library. Now In Print!

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Stop lying on stage

Startup Lessons Learned

You are the “hits&# that websites crave, the followers and the RSS subscribers. You are the “hits&# that websites crave, the followers and the RSS subscribers. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Take a look and let me know what you think.