Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Women continue to monumentally change the face of tech and leadership, not only in Austin, but all across the US. Capital Factory Women in Tech Summit 2017 In conjunction with our month of women speakers and related programming, we are excited to announce our first Women In Tech Summit on August 23rd.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well. 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 25, 2009

It also made me understand what kind of support sales people needed from marketing and what marketing programs were wasted motion. Making sales calls with him taught me what a world class salesperson was like. It also made me realize that there are times you don’t want any sales people in your company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Now we needed to put the tactical programs in place to make this repositioning strategy happen. We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

As an example of the extremely high quality of the folks who followed Bill to make ESL great, not only did we have the very best image processing capabilities and the most excellent QRC services around, the IDIMS staff still holds annual reunions because we became a band of brothers (and sisters) under wonderful leadership.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

military missile program in the 1950′s (Atlas, Thor, etc.) My Brothers Keeper During the Cold War, when Ted Hall was under suspicion of being a Soviet spy, his brother Ed Hall , stayed in the Air Force and worked on every U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

I am also a pilot, and computer engineer, and love to read stories about sigint and black aircraft programs. Also, it would be nice to do something that helps this country (but not solely for that reason).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

My team is setting the big dish up for Moon Bounce, which is quite difficult to do on chump change for 3 letter agency budgets, but we have the privelege of permission to put on a program on and aroud the 26 June.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Terman proudly pointed out that only Stanford, MIT and Harvard had a military sponsored electronics program. political leadership with a much bigger picture. To give our leadership an estimate of the Soviet’s nuclear production capacity, the CIA also had to estimate how many nuclear weapons could the Soviet Union make.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

I was asked to explain why a marketing program that cost $150,000 bucks literally generated nothing in revenue for the company. Historically, these were two guys with high testosterone. They hit each other with baseball bats until one of them dropped.) This first Zen moment happened at a SuperMac exec staff meeting.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on). Sales is heavily building and staffing a national sales organization; the sales channel has quotas and sales goals. Marketing is at its peak.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Given the hardware I had worked on at ESL, learning microprocessors wasn’t that hard but figuring out how to teach hardware design and assembly language programming was a bit more challenging. If you wanted your own applications, you had to write them yourself.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Was our compensation program good, great? Key applications : At the time color desktop publishing customers used only four key applications: Page layout programs called Quark and PageMaker, a photo manipulation package called Photoshop, and a drawing program called Illustrator. What did they think about our company?

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

A similar thing happens when a software program is repeatedly ‘improved’ so people can “do more things&#. The extra rent they were paying on palatial digs would have bought six months worth of runway… Reply Cy Quick , on May 15, 2009 at 10:49 pm Said: The same mechanism operates with nation-states and empires.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Great art and great programming are fostered within a community that shares an ethic of care for its members. I have been swinging for the fences for several years as a young entrepreneur at the executive leadership level for several start-ups and most recently starting my own. I now have 6yr old and 3yr old boys.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

ELINT Tasking The ELINT program sought answers to operational questions like: What was the Radar Order of Battle a penetrating bomber would face? Venture Capital, Microwaves and the OSS Dean Watkins the leader of TWT research at Stanford’s Electronic Laboratory, left Stanford in 1957 and co-founded Watkins-Johnson (with R.H.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Nine months into my year tour, and seven months into my reading program, I was learning something interesting every day. (We Instead someone realized that the knowledge I had accumulated could provide the big picture to brief new guys “read in” to this compartmentalized program. We could do what!? From where??) It had no PR agency.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

This was about the time Christies and Sotheby’s were starting to auction Soviet space program artifacts , and I was thinking that perhaps a spacesuit in the lobby would be appropriate given our name. When you got off the elevator, you faced a non descript corporate-looking set of walls.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

Hundreds of thousands of people worked on developing strategic weapons, bombers, our ICBM and SLBM missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. These programs dwarfed the size that any single commercial company could do by itself. During the cold war, the U.S. government kept up the pace.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. Having each department develop a mission statement depends on leadership and direction from the CEO. “Going Out of Business” Strategy I’m now convinced “all our departments are equal” is a “going out of business” strategy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Heather is an outspoken advocate for women in tech leadership roles and building an inclusive and diverse workforce. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. startupcto

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