Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. And since I open source everything I do, you were the recipient of open source.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. Can you become a founder by watching videos? Perhaps, but founders are closer to artists than any other profession. Can it be self-directed?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Continually push more for diversity in students/founders; older people, Hispanics, women, brown and black – people of all of all flavors. Reach out to older/retired entrepreneurs, find them and put them into the mix as mentors, sometimes as founders and coaches and so forth. Students/Teams. A big thanks to Jerry Engel of U.C.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Bill Perry the founder of ESL, is now acknowledged as one of the founders of the entire field of National Reconnaissance , working the NSA and the CIA in programs to intercept and evaluate Soviet missile telemetry and communications intelligence. Reply Top Posts « WordPress.com , on April 14, 2009 at 5:12 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. This meant building every possible feature the founding team envisioned into a monolithic “release” of the product.

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