Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

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.” To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

& Raising Capital Pitch Perfect 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor Raising Money Using Customer Development Due Diligence Checklist Term Sheet Archives (from Brad [.] Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

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?” Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. Are These Your Slides? To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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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. And I would get to use my marketing skills at generating an industry-wide reality distortion field to make this company look like the second coming.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Subscribe to comments with RSS. It’s like arguing against vertical software. Now where is the RSS-feed, i want more of this stuff. March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. Posted in CEO Friday , Job. « Kynetx Impact: Sneak Peek! CEO Friday: Is 50 hours/wk a Masochistic Workload? » 510 Responses. Very good post. mike mainguy.

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