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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

And I remember staying in everything from little motels to big hotels and resorts, from National parks in Alaska to trips in India. Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) + The Customer Development… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 9, 2010 This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.? Novel and creative campaigns like the recent YouTube campaign from Old Spice purportedly demonstrate the power of social in marketing. If you do a lot of pitches, spend the six minutes to watch this.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Second, it set a cultural norm at my startups, first at Supermac as the VP of Marketing, then at Rocket Science as the CEO and at E.piphany as President. Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts. Long vacations. It takes two.