Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
In 2007, I graduated United States Air Force Academy as a computer engineer and entered the Air Force’s acquisition corps , excited and confident about my ability to bring technology to bear for our airmen. I was their technical man on the inside – making sure big defense contractors delivered on their promises.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.
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Steve Blank
MAY 23, 2016
It said, “teach us to number our days that we gain a heart of wisdom “ Since then I’ve had a series of interesting careers: technician in the Air Force, tech writer, marketer, entrepreneur, CEO and now educator and mentor. Five years later the U.S. While Ben taught me how to think, Gordon Bell taught me what to think about.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 26, 2009
Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner. So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. It’s harder to remember that we have no perpetual rights to them, they aren’t our due, but they’re gifts.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Student Feedback. He runs H4X Labs.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
With new online technology, lean resources (think food cart/truck versus restaurant), cloud everything, you can “test” an idea with low risk and not too much money. Here is what I believe might be three things to make you think, and perhaps do: Know the Major Customer Groups. Do you look at large customer segments?
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. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.
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