Steve Blank

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

Organizational debt is all the people/culture compromises made to “just get it done” in the early stages of a startup. They had reinvented a traditional print media category onto web and mobile devices for a new generation of users who were no longer buying magazines but reading online. the company had.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Without a clear explanation of why this had been done, startups, which were already being funded by ever-increasing pools of venture capital, abandoned cooperation with the Defense Department and focused on high returns on social media and commercial applications.

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. That’s why early stage companies aren’t run by accountants with spreadsheets.

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Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns and relentlessly direct critiques

Steve Blank

And if we want them to understand what life outside the classroom in an early stage venture will look like, then they need to experience chaos, conflicting data, uncertainty and good-enough decision-making for 10 confusing weeks. These groups might also offer resources (such as interpreters) to help local authorities make the calls.

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Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns and relentlessly direct critiques

Steve Blank

And if we want them to understand what life outside the classroom in an early stage venture will look like, then they need to experience chaos, conflicting data, uncertainty and good-enough decision-making for 10 confusing weeks. These groups might also offer resources (such as interpreters) to help local authorities make the calls.

Lean 253
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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 18: Sarah Calhoun and Steve Sims

Steve Blank

Everyone was in the media going, “Oh, that’s so exclusive. I held onto that (maxim) from an early stage, and it worked well for me. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. The company quickly acquired some mystique, but not by design: We launched … a website and we forgot to put an email on there and a phone number.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz

Steve Blank

In addition, Orin has served on boards or as the Principal Investigator for the NYC Media Lab , PowerBridgeNY , and the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership. Orin Herskowitz has been executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures since 2006 and is also VP of Columbia’s Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer.