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. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Would you mind sharing them?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really. I was just in marketing.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. Blank said it best “There are no facts inside the building so get the heck outside&# (quote source): Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our [.]

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals.

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