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supermac War Story 1: Joining supermac

Steve Blank

When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. So perhaps a more accurate description was that the company was a “restart.”

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Reply Week 2 – Customer Discovery & Listening « Iain’s Chips & Tech , on November 6, 2009 at 9:44 am Said: [.] Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank [.]

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Customer Development Fireside Chat

Steve Blank

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

As Peter began to speak extemporaneously our mouths slowly fell open as he described the video game market, its size, its demographics, the state of the technology, and the state of games. You’re in a “ hits-based &# entertainment business like movies or music rather than a product business like traditional high-tech. -

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” For our tech project (and likely others in our field) the value is in accurately predicting platforms and information channels in the next 6months-1 year. Are These Your Slides?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Subscribe to comments with RSS. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies.

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