Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) He had spent 12 years at DEC , first as a hardware engineer designing part of the PDP-16 , then as the marketing manager for the LSI-11 and then into sales.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

No trade-up program? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. No discount for existing users? No tools to transition your customers data to the new and improved but incompatible product(s)? Congratulations, you’ve just fired your existing customer base. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well. when we were first building Genlighten, I might have uncovered these design issues during the Customer Development process.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

oDesk enables companies to easily provision programming talent from all corners of the globe. Yelp, GrubHub, OpenTable, 1stDibs (for the designer) and Uber are all high frequency use cases, where the consumers can rely on the marketplace as a utility. “Wow” moments lead to word-of-mouth viral growth and high net promoter scores.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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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.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Now we needed to put the tactical programs in place to make this repositioning strategy happen. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Our model here at RTP is to deliver “venture capital at scale.” We have vertical liftoff! For example, Joby works with the U.S.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. I blogged about, commented about, and eventually bumped into a fellow web programming who loved the idea and ran with it (Tyler Gillies). link] Nivi.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

military missile program in the 1950′s (Atlas, Thor, etc.) Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. My Brothers Keeper During the Cold War, when Ted Hall was under suspicion of being a Soviet spy, his brother Ed Hall , stayed in the Air Force and worked on every U.S. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Terman proudly pointed out that only Stanford, MIT and Harvard had a military sponsored electronics program. Air Force’s long range bombing arm and the designated instrument of Armageddon. By 1947 the U.S. military was funding half of Stanford’s engineering school budget. bombers. (The Microwave Valley was about to take off.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

I am also a pilot, and computer engineer, and love to read stories about sigint and black aircraft programs. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Also, it would be nice to do something that helps this country (but not solely for that reason). Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

My team is setting the big dish up for Moon Bounce, which is quite difficult to do on chump change for 3 letter agency budgets, but we have the privelege of permission to put on a program on and aroud the 26 June. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Instead of arguing why Dallas might be better than Houston we should be talking about how we can work together to get our share of venture capital dollars more in line with our population size and startup activity by unlocking additional capital sources that have been previously inaccessible to tech.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

I was asked to explain why a marketing program that cost $150,000 bucks literally generated nothing in revenue for the company. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Historically, these were two guys with high testosterone. They hit each other with baseball bats until one of them dropped.) Blog at WordPress.com.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This means that more and more entrepreneurs are designing solutions to global problems, creating innovative products and services that meet real needs, and driving social change. 7- Better Tech Opportunities Photo Credit: Maximilian Wühr There will be more tech opportunities for new entrepreneurs, even those with zero programming experience.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. In the 12 months ended June 30, 2018, the Upwork platform enabled $1.56

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Everyone was using a road map that was designed for a very different location, yet they are surprised when they end up lost. Engineering focuses on building the product; it designs the product, specifies the first release and hires a staff to build the product. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Marketing is at its peak.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. There’s the Alfred P.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. So our people in the field could correct any egregious design advice I gave to customers who mattered. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2021

There’s been an emergence of “pre-accelorator” or “people accelorator” programs—experiences that you can buy your way into with cash, as opposed to potentially valuable future equity, that replicate the education and network provided by the likes of YCombinator. I very much enjoyed them and found them to be intellectually stimulating.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Was our compensation program good, great? Key applications : At the time color desktop publishing customers used only four key applications: Page layout programs called Quark and PageMaker, a photo manipulation package called Photoshop, and a drawing program called Illustrator. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Designing the Perfect Building Once the commitment to fix everything wrong was in place, we were off and running on the design phase. We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. The exec staff started meeting about the design of the new building. I was great at “office wars.”)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Great art and great programming are fostered within a community that shares an ethic of care for its members. My daughter, now 14, has her own company, doing web design and PHP and CSS and who knows what else. I have brought my wife in helping with the graphic design so she can be part of it and feel the intensity and fun.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

ELINT Tasking The ELINT program sought answers to operational questions like: What was the Radar Order of Battle a penetrating bomber would face? Venture Capital, Microwaves and the OSS Dean Watkins the leader of TWT research at Stanford’s Electronic Laboratory, left Stanford in 1957 and co-founded Watkins-Johnson (with R.H.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

The ESL equipment were racks of the latest semiconductors designed into a system so complicated that the mean-time-between-failure was measured in days. Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. We could do what!? From where??) ESL had no marketing people. It had no PR agency.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

This was about the time Christies and Sotheby’s were starting to auction Soviet space program artifacts , and I was thinking that perhaps a spacesuit in the lobby would be appropriate given our name. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. When you got off the elevator, you faced a non descript corporate-looking set of walls.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

Hundreds of thousands of people worked on developing strategic weapons, bombers, our ICBM and SLBM missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. These programs dwarfed the size that any single commercial company could do by itself. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. During the cold war, the U.S. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. or decision-making processes (like understanding text and images) without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. I’ve encountered finance organizations with budget processes designed to simplify their lives, but not the rest of the company’s. Get a blog at WordPress.com Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. I’ve used Compact.NET (in pre-iPhone era), GUI programming for windows, and games with XNA.

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