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). We hired a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Duke who had worked on helicopter design.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. What will it take for Texas to produce startups of that kind of scale and impact in technology, food, retail, entertainment, energy, education, real estate, transportation and health?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto « The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital” Part 2 Raising Money Using Customer Development » 8 Responses Jake Lumetta , on November 2, 2009 at 10:49 am Said: Great post. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, Silicon Valley collectively deplatformed Trump (a scary precedent even if you vehemently dislike the guy). Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . Monero: in addition to privacy, Monero made some other really smart design decisions (e.g. a version of the fat protocol thesis).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

See the pitch at SXSW in the category of Enterprise & Smart Data Technology , 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. Those of us in AI would love to see GPU compute costs come down, and unfortunately, the success of blockchain-based technologies isn’t doing us any favors on that front.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. to make sense of the unstructured feedback received from customers. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Entrepreneur Finder ( www.EntrepreneurFinder.com ) is a free interactive resource for entrepreneurs, skilled professionals, students and investors to find each other and designed to help startup companies grow. Or how about an angel investor scouring for a technology startup to invest in?

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley. Zilog Zilog was my first Silicon Valley company where you could utter the customer’s name in public. So our people in the field could correct any egregious design advice I gave to customers who mattered.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Entrepreneur-in-Residence After SuperMac I had been approached by one of our venture investors to be an entrepreneur in residence (EIR), a Silicon Valley phrase which says one thing but means another. Peter described the first company in which “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” and we were enthralled. Little did I know.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers. But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again in what would become Silicon Valley. When technology changes are rapid you want the founder to continue to run the company. is closing rapidly.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After hearing from 20+ guest speakers , including two Secretaries of Defense, Generals, Admirals and Policy makers in our Technology, Innovation and Modern War class – the direction of technology and the future of national security came into sharper focus. As it is currently organized, the U.S. But more changes are needed.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. Stop annoying our game designers and start working on selling and marketing the games.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The greatest risk in startups —and hence the greatest cause of failure—is not the technology risk of developing a product but in the risk of developing customers and markets. Likewise, business program must educate marketers to deliver more actionable results (read: less fluffy) that can really drive all the technology work.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. You’re not joining a big company. Startups are the adventure of a lifetime. But make sure it fits who you are. Excerpted from his post: “When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or [.] Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I’m going to link this this and read it weekly Reply Mark Gibson , on April 22, 2010 at 8:27 am Said: Hi Steve, I’ve read Four Steps a couple of times now (loved the Secret History of Silicon Valley) and enjoy your blog-posts…this is on target. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I am about to talk to an entrepreneur on how to approach his pitch to VC’s and I believe this is a great approach to it. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I think Pfizer was lulled into the “if we build it, they will come&# nature of drug [.] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. It has to be little-endian or we won’t design your chip into our systems.” The reaction from the chip circuit design guys was, “OK, we could do that. What a great idea.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Marketing is often treated as a bad word in Silicon Valley. We celebrate good design, clean code, and clever ideas, while disregarding marketing as a fuzzy practice whose benefits are immeasurable at best, and dubious by most accounts. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' Our downloads started ramping up.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. This is why I’m so perplexed by this recent Steve Blank comment: Entrepreneurs who have a startup or two under their belt tend to rattle off preliminary customer [.] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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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. Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I have been working on getting a startup to revenue for a while, and while this is my 4th iteration and I have not yet succeeded, I’ve been learning new things every time. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Because of the vagaries of how floating point units in computers were designed, your average IBM mainframe of the day would take forever to run a simulation application. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. A supercomputer could be a 100x faster. What Markets?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This is the first of two posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– Building Blocks of Entrepreneurship By the mid 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. Every generation of new technology seems to find a willing audience in naïve journalists and eager readers. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Funded by military contracts, these 1950′s microwave tube startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. Again Stanford technology would solve these challenges. Why Electronics Intelligence? Keep in mind that 32 of these planes were shot down in the Cold War.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

I had a pleasant meeting and was as convincing as a marketing type could be to a very earnest and quirky field service guy, mostly promising the moon for a versatile but then very buggy piece of silicon. Long gone from Zilog I saw the picture of the original Macintosh design team. I thought nothing about the meeting until years later.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

In previous companies I could talk about technology details and how the product features could solve a customers problem. There couldn’t have been a worse choice for CEO in Silicon Valley. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy. I was in a very, very different business.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Reply Play Wack-a-Mole – gently, now – With Your ‘Bad’ Customers | CityOf.com – More Local… FASTER. , on July 9, 2010 at 12:50 pm Said: [.] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. He showed me a little Korean hard drive portable music player, not much more than the Compaq reference design it was based off of. We accidently had a product with the Novelty Effect.

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