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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I made them a pretty good offer – hire me as a training instructor at the salary they were going to pay me as a lab technician. Reply Shankar Saikia , on June 29, 2009 at 9:02 am Said: THANKS – MAKES ME FEEL BETTER 21 months ago I left an awesome job at Oracle in Silicon Valley and relocated to India to be an entrepreneur.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Reply steveblank , on October 5, 2009 at 2:08 pm Said: Chris, Ben was the founding VP of Engineering at Ardent.

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Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

It is a skill you need to either have or develop. King James Bible, New Testament – Matthew 7:7 Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Zilog | Tagged: Entrepreneurs , Steve Blank « The Road Not Taken He’s Only in Field Service » 20 Responses Mike Paciello , on July 27, 2009 at 8:54 am Said: Thanks Steve.

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How Kevin O’Connor, and FindTheBest Got Lean

Steve Blank

By 2009, I was fed up. Lean Start-up Connection: Customer Development. Thousands, then millions of new customers were coming to the site through SEO, just like we’d guessed with our customer acquisition hypothesis. Lean Start-up Connection: Agile Development. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Almost all of it is in one giant fixed-cost bucket: salaries. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said. January 21, 2009 1:19 PM Jon Bischke said.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Out of Stanford Business School she went to work for Apple as an evangelist and then joined Ansa Software , the developer of Paradox, a Mac-database. My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts. Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. It takes two.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. Reply Calvin Chin , on April 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm Said: Great war stories, Steve. The Vietnam war was winding down. In the Air Force?