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The Curse of a New Building « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Lets Fix Everything that Was Broken At SuperMac we were excited to finally get out of the crummy tiltup we had occupied since the company emerged from bankruptcy. The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.]

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Today, the successor company serves some 300,000 customers in a series of niche markets including American soldiers calling home from war zones, oil rig managers, and big game hunters. No Business Plan survives first contact with a customer.