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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. Filed under: Customer Development , Market Types , Marketing. Tags: Customer Development Market Types Marketing. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. Golder and Gerard J.

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Entrepreneurship for the 99%

Steve Blank

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. Intel was founded in 1968 to make memory chips ( bipolar RAM ) but 17 years later they got out of the memory business and become the leading microprocessor company.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation - Steve Blank , July 22, 2010 Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved. Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch. Make it unique.