Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. I’ve been on the side of your potential partners, and I know that often too much ‘persistence’ is offputting. Oh, and we had no installed customer base. u have to be creative, too.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Law firm partners often have anger management issues, but the thing about anger is that it is not always wrong to be angry — if somebody is angry at you because you did something wrong, then that anger is valid. Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:39 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Also, there are a variety of strategies for “easing out&# gracefully such as finding an outsourcing vendor or new partner. on July 9, 2010 at 12:50 pm Said: [.] I’ve watched new CEO’s brought into large existing consumer products companies to turn around a failing strategy. Fire might be a strong word.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] Reply steveblank , on October 5, 2009 at 2:08 pm Said: Chris, Ben was the founding VP of Engineering at Ardent. Future posts will have some Ben stories.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

If you were a “with it” VC you needed to have a “Content&# or “Multimedia&# company in your portfolio to impress your limited partners – educational software companies, game companies, or anything that could be described as content and/or Multimedia. There appears to be a saturation point within this market space.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

No one will say work less and go home and spend time with your partner and/or family. No one will say that it’s time to move on. No one will tell you that you are better qualified for something elsewhere.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The positive effect of the tidal wave of press was as a door opener for us to raise money from corporate partners. Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. At the time I was a true believer that Rocket Science was going to change the gaming world.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. These two posts were amazing. Anyways, here’s one question I have.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). Reply Startup vs Home Life « Nickpoint , on September 9, 2010 at 8:19 am Said: [.] Go figure.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The second was when a Southern Californian aircraft company decided to break into the missiles and space field by partnering with Stanford electronics expertise. The Navy informs Terman that, “money was not a problem but time was.” and the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons at this point.)

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. Post-Mortem Title : Untitled Partners Post-Mortem. Company : Untitled Partners. Quora says: October 4, 2010 at. Investors Companies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You leave the comfort of your existing job, convince a few partners to join you and you jump off the bridge together. I talk about this in my book and there is always a discussion at the Lean Startup Group at [link]. At each startup I couldn’t wait to do this. No building, no money, no customers, no market? Great, sign me up.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. I remember after a month or two of talking to 14-22 year old male gamers (our potential target market,) I realized that for the first time in my career I had no emotional connection to my customers or channel partners.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Whitney Company by writing a personal check for $5M and hiring Benno Schmidt as the first partner (Schmidt turned Whitney’s description of “private adventure capital&# into the term “venture capital”). Reply Innovation Ecosystems Network » The Next Silicon Valley , on August 17, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] Whitney Co.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Partners Booths While your booth may be small, some of your potential or existing partners may have much larger ones, in much more visible locations. For a small company this is like throwing your tradeshow money on the floor. Look for locations near entrances, food concessions, rest rooms, seminar rooms, or close to major exhibitors.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Group is worth noting for: Investing their own private money, Reid Dennis would found Institutional Venture Partners in 1974 First group specifically investing in the valley’s electronics industry SBIC Act of 1958 During the cold war the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union in 1957 both traumatized and galvanized the United States.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Their VC firm, In-Q-Tel , has been in business for 10 years, and like most VC firms they have an annual event where they show off their new portfolio companies to their limited partners and other VC partners. And I could have sworn they all had the same badge.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

They would also set the standard for the 20% carry for general partners. They would be one the first venture firms to organize their firm as a partnership rather than an SBIC or public company. Tommy Davis would go on to found the Mayfield Fund in 1969.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) Reply Sujoy Neogi , on August 14, 2010 at 10:12 pm Said: Good one, but i feel you need to listen to Steve Blank more if you are a startup. ?domiausias Reply Hans , on June 15, 2010 at 4:40 pm Said: Excellent observation.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This is a big jump vs. 2010 when we only had three companies (Microsoft, Oracle and IBM) valued just over $550 billion. What’s even more impressive is the new generation, with 75 public cloud companies valued above $1 billion vs eight companies in 2010 and 26 of these companies are already above $10 billion. trillion of market value.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. Eric Ries’s astute observations about engineering and Lean Startups make the same point. Thanks to my wife for being a great partner. Document every step. It takes two.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

We were about to be partners in building a new product family. Reply Peter Glaskowsky , on May 3, 2010 at 2:19 pm Said: Steve, my memory of this situation is different from yours. Yes, yes and yes. Camilo Reply Top 4, Core Business Priorities , on June 8, 2009 at 4:32 pm Said: [.] In fact leashing [.]

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. It’s like arguing against vertical software. March 25, 2011 at 7:16 pm. The Foolish.

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