Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The rest of the organization (product development, marketing, support) has been burning cash, all according to plan, expecting Sales to make its numbers. Why is it only alarming now? Because the company based its headcount and expenses on the expectation that the Sales organization will bring in revenue according to plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

So put a vertical line down the center and on the top of the left hand column, put words to lose on top of the right hand column, put words to use. We could argue for the rest of the day about who dropped the ball on this. And from a leadership standpoint, you know, the should thing just makes people not want to try.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

They had this great architecture, and Apple had figured out to get movies into their own computers for a demo, but for the rest of us there was no physical device that allowed an average consumer to plug a video camera or VCR into and get video into a Mac. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. Little did we know.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

You can imagine the rest of the conversation; my sounding reluctant to let our own tests outside our building, the magazines begging us to let them have them, and finally a deal gets struck where we let the benchmarks out to the test labs of these magazines under their own name “The Potrero Benchmark Suite” without attribution to us.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

And the rest is history. Mike may have “fathered&# FM-CW OTH ardar at Stanford and SRI, but the rest of OTH radar technology had its beginnings at NRL, Raytheon, Sylvania, and ITT. Gorbachev, now the Soviet Premier, had to grapple with the spiraling cost of military systems that weren’t amortized by consumer purchases.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Instead of focusing on “technical specs&# like the rest of the category, we are redefining to Information Delivery as the category with time/cost to Actionable Info as the metric, which is something we can compete on very well. Reply Dave Goulden , on March 26, 2009 at 11:04 pm Said: I love the redefinition of the market.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Your suggestion for picking a niche assumes you’ve thought through the rest of the Market Type alternatives. It is related to business model. Not sure I would make the same definitive statements about best bet for Market Type. Validation requires revenue/orders if you’re in a business that sells product. Great quote.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2022

Our business model is based on our desire to help more people create sustainable wealth and in so doing, develop healthy habits and great examples of leadership that could easily be transferred to the next generation. So, the word vertical is what I have been looking for. Thanks to Stella Cooper, PaydayLoansUK ! #14-

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Reply Mark Essel , on November 25, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: Diggin’ the presentation so far, looking forward to catching the rest of this later in the day. This is a must watch, and you might as well check out the slides and relevant links. [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets. Do you have domain expertise in your market?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

It’s this kind of total immersion in the fundamentals of your field that allows you to master the knowledge and skills to put yourself a cut above the rest. It got results — VanDerveer reported that some kids improved their vertical jump eight inches in three months.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Since it was the military and I was a lowly airman (I was outranked by the rest of the entire air force), the answer I got was, “Don’t you know there’s a war on? It gave me a sense of purpose for the rest of the war. I hope all is well with you and the rest of the Blank clan. Shut up and keep fixing that equipment.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. The company was lucky to survive his later stage leadership, and would be gone today had Bill Ford not brought in the ex-Boeing fellow who turned it around and runs it today. One guy really did all of this.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

Our president picked up on the momentum and asked me what I needed from the rest of the exec team to fix this debacle. It was so out of character, people were shocked. Some stammered out, “can you say that again?&#

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Look for locations near entrances, food concessions, rest rooms, seminar rooms, or close to major exhibitors. Be sure to look at a floor plan before you choose your site. Foot traffic is heaviest in certain areas of a typical trade show floor. Try to avoid dead-end aisles, loading docks, obstructing columns, or other low-traffic regions.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The signals displayed by the ALR-20 were used to control the jammers of the rest of electronic countermeasures systems – putting out enormous number of kilowatts using brute force noise jamming and later on some much more sophisticated jamming techniques. And because of his training, an EWO could identify and prioritize the threats.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The rest is just fluff. I’m at jordan.cooper@gmail.com or blogging here: jordancooper.wordpress.com Reply Alain Raynaud , on November 12, 2009 at 4:42 pm Said: Or maybe it’s just the last slide that convinced the VCs. You already have the hockey stick and exponential growth. This is my new favorite post on your blog.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

He also shared his perspective on M&A (including Uber’s recent acquisitions of Postmates and Drizly), autonomous vehicles, the complexities of working in highly regulated industries, and how his personal and professional background shaped the way he approaches leadership today. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT. It’s always a combination.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. “We We need your decision now because we are about to spend $50,000 on new collateral.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The rest of the progress report sounded just like this. Me: How are we doing on the Nastran port? Jim: Wonderful, they said they’ll get back to me next month. Me: How about Dyna 3D ? Jim: It’s going great, we’re on their list. After hearing the same report for the nth week, I called a halt to the meeting.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

A great vacation with my wife wasn’t going to make up for being AWOL from home the rest of the year. Some of these problems began with the 19th century Romanticist notion of artists as mad geniuses, in elevated isolation from the rest of us. People need to be left alone sometimes because they need other people.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The rest of the entrepreneur interviews Pat does are very worthwhile listens also. They were critical to winning the rest of the market, which largely followed their moves. Cracking the code on product-market fit is “the only thing that matters” according to one of our largest and most helpful investors at data.world, Pat Ryan.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It’s been thirty years, but every once an awhile I still wonder what happened to the rest of their lives. By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2016

We have established clients in some of the world’s largest companies, across multiple interesting verticals such as telecom, banking, travel and entertainment, and commerce. There’s who you are and what you do but the true core of your brand and I think the center of your life rests in the answer to why.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

And the rest of the advice on this blog is irrelevant. And even if you did it’s the wrong focus, and time spent for a startup 2. If winning $5-10K is your goal, you’re not a scalable startup, just a small business.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

I don’t know for sure, but I would bet these managers were sucking down well over half the total compensation in the department while doing no useful work and actually reducing the amount of work the rest of us could get done. I know of far larger organizations that have a far lower level of managerial overhead.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

He handles day-to-day operations with the rest of the leadership, while being focused on both investment and revenue generation. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Therefore I’m not sure what to make of the rest of their conclusions. That may be the case for the 549 founders they interviewed, but only 4.5% of total entrepreneurs born in China and India is not even close to what entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley looks like. steve Michael F.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. It’s a problem that all weather driven sports have. I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents. Turns out, for whatever reason – cultural, business model, leadership, even bad luck – many incumbents have yet to figure out what to do with software, always on connectivity, and technology.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

Our receptionists’ desk was built on the wing of a WWII P-51 fighter plane, and the rest of the office décor matched. Since we were the hip, new, edgy, “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” video game company (more about “ big hat, no cattle ” startups in subsequent posts,) our office obviously had to match the image.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I Rest assured these meetings aren’t spent with everyone in agreement, congratulating each other on their perfect ideas. Professionalisms leadership management Rich Karlgaard teamwork workplace culture' First, what is the “soft edge”?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

At the end of a run I used to lay out and relax on the rocks to rest – at least I did, until the guards asked if I knew that there were more poisonous things per square foot here than anywhere in the world.) Yet if turned my head the other way, I’d stare out at a landscape that was untouched by humans. It shunned publicity.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

A+ in one or two courses every semester and mediocre in the rest. But the standard deviations are very wide because sometimes the student doesn’t bother to perform on the exams or papers because they’ve satisfied their own curiosity and have moved on to something else (another course, &c.). This was basically my m.o.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. No one was confused after that. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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