Customer Development Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2015
My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Taking My Class.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world. Many investors invest 2-3x more capital than necessary in startups that haven’t reached problem solution fit yet. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Congratulations.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) It still shocks me that marketing people in general don’t want to talk to customers, at all. I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.
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