Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. (My Yet when I talked to my venture capital friends, they said, “Well, that’s just how startups work. My mother kept asking if they were going to make me pay the money back.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. I was an idiot. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. It’s just a story about what happened to me.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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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. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. And so was his reputation for being verbally abusive to his direct reports. Working with my old boss sounded like a great idea. Order Here. Now In Print!

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APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Look at the early Silicon Valley companies – Homebrew Club =>PCs. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. When a technology is radically new, people buy a product for its technical features. At this stage you can more easily get away without doing any serious marketing or customer enquiries.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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JUNE 11, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The Adventure of a Lifetime. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley. Some say we were the first PCM in the valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. They are very interesting. Memorex is turning 50 years old in 2011.

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MAY 28, 2009

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

There couldn’t have been a worse choice for CEO in Silicon Valley. Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley was an Oxymoron A key premise of our new company was that our video compression and authoring technology would revolutionize how games were made and played. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Thanks for adding the real facts to the story. steve Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

These posts cover two distinct periods – the first, the rise of “ Microwave Valley ” chronicles the decade of 1946-1956 as Stanford University became the hub of military/industry contracting in the Bay Area. . In doing so he accidentally launched entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley – with the help of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System » 20 Responses brantcooper , on March 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm Said: Great story, Steve. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. I even had time to find a girlfriend who was a contractor to the company. I will ask again Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Luckily (or maybe because we were in Silicon Valley where there was a domain expert for everything) there was a very smart consultant in the retail computer space, Seymour Merrin, who preached about the importance of packaging. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 23, 2012

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd zLmdx7 “We pitched investors 348 times before getting a ‘yes’ from Walden Venture Capital in March 2004.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

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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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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

. “We’ve been seeing at least one post per week on TheFunded concerning mentor compensation”, said Adeo Ressi, the founder of both Founder Institute and TheFunded.com (a site focused on revealing the inside truths of the Venture Capital world). Dreamworks is making the Need for Speed movie. About & Staff.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Brendan McManus said: “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [link] #startup #advice [.] Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup) [.] Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The Churchill Club , Silicon Valley’s largest public affairs organization, invited Carl Schramm , president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation and I to talk about entrepreneurship. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.) Order Here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs. steve Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 14, 2009

Filed under: California Coastal Commission « Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the Rubicon » Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” “Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

A View from the Valley. Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. Cooley Report Reviews Second Quarter Venture Capital Financing Trends. Is there a Jewish network in the Silicon Valley startup scene? Venture Capital.

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APRIL 29, 2009

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