Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Our company’s stock was an inducement, but all of them were in it to help us build a better computer.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about. The company was the laughing stock of the Mac market. After talking to its resellers and customers I realized that SuperMac was the only company that could be described as “fifth in a group of three.” Why I was interested was equally obscure.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country?
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. One key difference: unlike HP, which had restricted stock ownership to the founders and top management, Perry made sure everyone at ESL had stock. The “customers’” contracts funded the company.
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.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 26, 2009
He raised the money by selling stock to prominent Boston families who – seeing the benefit of the joint stock company – went on to found, railroads, banks, and insurance companies based on this new model. play in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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