Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Don’t we have to get the site/plugins up and running before we gather information from users? Here’s my first time entrepreneur dilemma. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Ignore This Post The same caveat applies as in the first post; If you’re selling via the web, and trade shows seem hopelessly anachronistic, ignore this post. Why are you saying that “If you’re selling via the web and trade shows are something your grandfather told you about, ignore this post.&#. this may be a useful read.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. It may just be that the message of building companies that have predictable revenue and profit models hasn’t percolated through the VC business model. Order Here. Now In Print!

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. This is my core assumption on Web 3.0.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Yet, we as a planet are beginning to understand just how much of the web is not true. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon.

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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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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Marketing is often treated as a bad word in Silicon Valley. have focused relentlessly on being the best-in-class in their specific vertical. She previously served as the Chief Product Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Smule , where she remains an advisor to the Board of Directors. Karaoke , AutoRap , Guitar !

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

It surely lifted my spirits once again in my quest to seek funding from venture capitalists and to keep silencing my critics and proving them that i can achieve my milestones and goals in my very ambitious web application. BTW, I personally would _never_ “find&# a founder over the web. Thanks Steve! Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. It doesn’t.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

There are many marketplaces on the web where one can go to find talent, but how do you know that their work is quality? We really wanted to build a network of top tier talent, similar to the caliber of talent that’s working in-house at top Silicon Valley tech companies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials. All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

We plan to have the many large dishes assembled for Moon Bounce, connected with live feeds on line, so EME, so the public will be able to be listened to from the web. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. BTW, keep the comments coming, they’re read and appreciated. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. Though technology tools and Web 2.0 The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said. ideas (e.g. Thanks again for a great post.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version. Me –“That’s a great hypothesis, do customers tell you that they’d buy your version if it was cheaper or on the web? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. We’re about to ship next week.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Filed under: Ardent , Family/Career , Technology « Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development Customer Development: Past, Present, Future » 17 Responses Mark Essel , on November 19, 2009 at 6:55 am Said: Haha, closure is well worth the effort when an entertaining tale can be shared!

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, medical devices, etc.,) you know they’re expensive in time, dollars and resources. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

But if you have a web based product the right answer may be 300-500. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The absolute number depends on your channel and industry. For example, if you are selling enterprise software, getting 3-5 early customers may be enough in Customer Validation. Thank you, Steve.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

With this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we have moved from the DimDim web conferencing platform to the ViVu video conferencing platform. I like the business idea a lot, and in 1M/1M, we know a lot about building Web 3.0 However, I'd like to see a more focused, vertical specific go-to-market strategy in Udemy.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 I liked his approach to building an outsourcing solution: focusing on a niche and building in-depth skills and credibility within that vertical.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

What you are searching for is not the one-off revenue hits but rather a repeatable pattern that can be replicated by a sales organization selling off a pricelist or by customers coming to your web site. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

steve The Difference Between Motion And Action | web pruned by monkeys , on November 12, 2009 at 11:05 pm Said: [.] Or do we culture the upstart cloudsters who can’t make substantive deals right away, but create a real foundation to the ecosystem of the ECGridOS Web Services API? Ideas anyone,? Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. The guidelines I had originally proposed to my students worked for enterprise software or Web 2.0 Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Reply A dozen of the best start-up pitches on the Web | JonBischke.com , on November 13, 2009 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Best regards, Dan Reply links for 2009-11-13 « Blarney Fellow , on November 13, 2009 at 5:14 pm Said: [.] Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. I do not want to necessarily start a flame war about particular creations of “Web 2.0 Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. Entrepreneurs in San Antonio will drive up to Austin for a day of office hours with guest mentors visiting from Silicon Valley. It’s not Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reading this TechCrunch post made me remember the first time I saw someone confront a worldview they didn’t expect. Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. The Smart People Can Denounce Bravo's Silicon Valley All They Want. “It’s hard to create a company like this as a kid,” he says.

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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.” My daughter, now 14, has her own company, doing web design and PHP and CSS and who knows what else. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

reminds us that Customer Development is not just collecting web metrics and it’s not about focus groups. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply Treat Your Customers Like Children (or your Children like Customers) | Market By Numbers | Marketing Help , on January 9, 2010 at 2:02 pm Said: [.]

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the reasons that Silicon Valley has been so successful at building blitzscaling companies is its “fail fast” mantra, which encourages entrepreneurs to determine whether or not their startup can achieve product-market fit as early in the company’s lifecycle as possible. WHAT LEADS TO PIVOTS? Not all pivots are created equal.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This is the first of two posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– Building Blocks of Entrepreneurship By the mid 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States.

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