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Thanksgiving Day

Steve Blank

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. Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner.

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The End of Innocence

Steve Blank

By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company. It’s been thirty years, but every once an awhile I still wonder what happened to the rest of their lives.

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Who's An Entrepreneur-Talk with the Kauffman Foundation « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development « Requiem For A Roommate 2 Responses steve , on October 21, 2010 at 7:05 am Said: what did Carl say at 1:12 ? Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.) Here’s a 6 minute excerpt from the talk. the video skipped or something?

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley? Just a quick history refresher.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1 « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/10/01/durant-versus-sloan-part-1 – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Streak , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. A (Micro) VC’s Tech Stack. *

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

The motivation in the mid 1950’s for these new startups was a crisis – we were in the midst of the cold war and the United States military and intelligence agencies were rearming as fast as they could. While existing companies took some of the business, often it was a graduate student or professor who started a new company.