David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. Amar Bhide, my former professor, wrote in Harvard Business Review, “ Strategy is Bunk.” – Thoughtful fund management.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

When I asked our trade show manager she looked at me like I was the house idiot and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to set up our trade show booth?” But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” This is a big idea.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Inside the covers of these publications our customers had said that it was the product reviews that most influenced their buying decisions.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. It’s harder to remember that we have no perpetual rights to them, they aren’t our due, but they’re gifts. I hope we managed to teach our children compassion and charity for others. Order Here. Now In Print!

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

From what I have seen, this is one of the few companies that can cross the elusive billion dollar mark in due course. The offering is a managed service, priced at $7,000-$10,000 for a one-time setup fee and a $2,500-$3,000 per month maintenance and services charge. Is it inventory risk that Statisco manages well? Discuss.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Reviews aren’t always reliable, and there is stiff competition on many gig platforms, making the prices undercut, the stakes lower and the work shoddy. After looking at poor online labor marketplaces and expensive consulting firms, I decided there was a need for a high quality labor services driven by technology.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This beta customer list includes the who's who of the tech business, and 1M/1M is very proud to continue hosting a monthly Stanzr event on an ongoing basis. It turns out a large number of consumers out there do not have dental insurance, so these special offers, reviews and ratings matter to them. I thought that was brilliant.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Our small training department had been without a manager for months and finding a replacement didn’t seem to be high on the VP of Sales list. Then it hit me – no one else wanted to be manager – what was the worst that could happen? What’s the Worst that Can Happen? All I had to do was ask.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did Silicon Valley start?

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? from the UCLA School of Law where he also served as Chief Comment Editor of the UCLA Law Review, and earned his B.A.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

We believe that founding CEOs run the very best technology companies, so naturally we wanted the firm to focus on this issue. As a founder who developed into a CEO, I know that there is no manual and it is a nearly vertical learning curve. Venture Capitalists in Silicon Valley are notorious for both their tardiness and distractedness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

The Atlantic Council’s report titled ‘ Keeping America’s Innovative Edge ’ outlined the challenges for what they termed ‘inland tech hubs’ in gaining access to capital compared to the coastal tech hub areas. Corsa Ventures fits this criteria. IS THERE ROOM FOR MORE LOCAL CAPITAL IN AUSTIN?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

We also talk about cash flow management rather than fund-raising though – watch and justifying expenses by cash coming in that matches or exceeds. Reply Week 2 – Customer Discovery & Listening « Iain’s Chips & Tech , on November 6, 2009 at 9:44 am Said: [.]

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies. Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Some examples may include: Automotive – managing parts and/or suppliers. Health – a medical assessment, a drug approval.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Once he was on board, I sat down with him on a weekly basis to review our progress with our list of software vendors. Also, if you’re an entrepreneur, make sure you hire and manage people so that they’re focusing on end goals and not motion or, once again, you’re screwed. They all have to be redrawn and reformatted.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley. Zilog Zilog was my first Silicon Valley company where you could utter the customer’s name in public. Just as I was getting settled into Zilog, the manager of the training department got fired. (I

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. She has been covering technology news for over 15 years, most recently as a senior editor for TechCrunch.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Their national technical means of verification made the world a safer place and hastened the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War.) He naturally prefers exclusives, and if your strategy requires a review from TechCrunch, then it’s a good way to go. Is this behavior an outlier or is it the norm in the PR industry?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. The results? Image source.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

What reviews did they trust? Instead they managed rep firms (independent sales companies that carried multiple, non-competing products) that called on computer resellers that sold to the customers. For the next three weeks I spent 8 hours a day calling customers and another 6 hours a day managing my new department.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. Bring in some outside professionals to review our progress? Was my response to stop development of the games?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. Dara manages Uber’s fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. And I had hired and fired two people who didn’t work out. I’m 0 for 2.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The pace of innovation we’re seeing in the cloud ecosystem is unprecedented, driven by the continued shift to cloud infrastructure, the need for more automation to support digital transformation, increasing security challenges and the growing amount of data to be managed and leveraged for insights and machine learning.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. We are transforming publishing for the 21st century.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? from the UCLA School of Law where he also served as Chief Comment Editor of the UCLA Law Review, and earned his B.A.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, Silicon Valley collectively deplatformed Trump (a scary precedent even if you vehemently dislike the guy). Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . This shift from Big Tech to NFT as an authenticator will have all kinds of interesting consequences for user experiences.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

During the last three years he’s worked with over 100 companies, many of which established Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley. As Carlota Perez points out , (see Figure 1) technology revolutions happen every half-century or so.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Follow the Leader At the conference I attended a bunch of technical sessions, and got lost when the speaker got past, “My name is xxx.” Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development product-management startup) [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Isn’t theory fun?

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Technology Poverty – Every revolution has its downsides – those who miss out. Technology is bringing about a new form of poverty to those who don’t have equal access to it. The technology minimums are changing quickly. A bit like Silicon Valley. My favourite example is collectors weekly.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? ” It’s worth noting that our primary focus was on technologies that aided and improved primary care, which is about half of the U.S. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists.

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