Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The popular literature has the valley springing to life in the 1960′s with the semiconductor revolution started by Shockley , Fairchild, Signetics, National and Intel, followed by the emergence of the personal computer in the mid 1970′s. . The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#. to do that.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

My company became the most important thing in my life. If I had been older, wiser, or more honest with myself, I would have understood that my wife and family should have been the most important thing in my life. I do have the work life balance reasonably well tuned now , incidentally. But the problem was that I was married.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Photo by FOTOCROMO See Also Tweet « Prior Post Posted in How-To and tagged with interviewing , real life Comment Subscribe E-mail This Print This Digg Share I totally agree, digging… I totally agree, digging into specific details does reveal a tremendous amount. Tags: startupcto. then youll be off to a good start!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Here was the guy who invented the field I had spent the first five years of my adult life working on. The Secret Life of Fred Terman in the next post. On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. Electronic warfare and signals intelligence in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

But it can also force you to hit the pause button and perhaps take a moment to reevaluate your life and your choices. Life was good. Besides seeing my housemates in Palo Alto I had no social life. Looking at the green and yellows of the farms, I realized that my life lacked the same colors. I had no other life than work.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Tenacious – can you keep going when everyone else gives up? You’re not joining a big company.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Congratulations, You’re now in Charge of your Life Growing up at home, our parents tell us what’s important and how to prioritize. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Driving across the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The next week in class a project group raised their hands and said, “Hey, Professor Blank, we found out the common wisdom in the biotech business is that “we need $10-20 million just for the R&D phase and 100’s of million to get through clinical trials.” “Of course,&# I said, “Life science is completely different.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

We were larger than life, but as one potential investor told us, “You guys are all hat and no cattle.” << (tags: startups) [.] Not everybody knows somebody who knows a VC… Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for July 15th - The zeitgeist daily , on July 14, 2009 at 8:39 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

If you can’t find a sustainable advantage this means that competition will likely drive the prices down and make your life miserable with below-substinence income. Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And there was a moment as they shared their stories, that they all began to realize that our company (one that had just come off of life support) was beginning to kick the rear of our better-funded and bigger competitors. I just wish I don’t have to fight another company with such an unstoppable team led by Steve for my life.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

If you look at the diagram in the post, the consequences of Market Type don’t come into play until later in a company’s life. I like this post by Fred Wilson on this topic: [link] Reply steveblank , on November 17, 2009 at 1:13 pm Said: Nivi, I think I understand the problem with #2.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

You need to know the day-in-the-life of the customer. But these meetings were life and death in our struggle for market share. You don’t delegate life and death. Some of my staff had believed we were gathering extraneous customer data. “Hey, Hey, we can make these surveys shorter. We don’t need to know all this stuff.”

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Because early in a technology company's life, a true operating executive is NOT what the company needs.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also its a good idea to have separate spaces so you’ll have some work/life balance. Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users. While we certainly made more than seven mistakes during the nearly four-year life of Monitor110, I think these top the list. Company : Overto. Author : Pawel Brodzinski.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Finding a technical partner is more akin to finding a life partner than anything else--the difference being that neither party has any intentions to stick around for fifty or sixty years. Tags: startupcto. When they ask, it often sounds like theyre asking for a product off the shelf--like, "Where can I get some cheap folding chairs?"

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. ITA Software.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Discovering that your worldview is wrong or mistaken can be a life-changing event. Reply Neil Ellis , on August 24, 2009 at 10:56 am Said: Life is so short, do we really want to spend it making it miserable for ourselves and others? It’s part of growing up but can happen at any age. Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The only drawback is the price tag. You might not think of the American Federal Reserve as the place to go for comic books, but they’ve been teaching money management for years via their own series of comics, which you can access for free on the Internet Archive. What is it? Give One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent a try.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It was fun watching it happen. So it made little practicle sense.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Notes like this are part of Grahams ongoing process of steering them through the thickets of Silicon Valley startup life. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). The Life Select. Full Archives. The Life 50. Advertising. These Spooky Cinemagraphs Will Radically Change Online Advertising. Transportation.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Were our products a small part of their life or large? Few times in his/her life will they find such a market.) There are some great lessons in your experiences here, and I feel like I can keep getting more in my post-MS&E273 life! I wanted to know the facts. Within these applications how did our customers spend their day?

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Selling your company is the most important transaction of your life—are you ready? Geek of the Week Archive. ENTREPRENEURS. E-COMMERCE. AMAZON WEB SERVICES. WINDOWS PHONE. Mobile News. WINDOWS PHONE. VIDEO GAMES. GEEK OF THE WEEK. TECH EVENTS.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Saying you knew how to build great games because you played them all your life was like saying, “Hey I eat out a lot so why don’t I open a restaurant.” Stop annoying our game designers and start working on selling and marketing the games.” Hindsight In hindsight it’s easy to laugh. Or “I’ve seen a lot of movies so let’s start a movie studio.”

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. This can’t be done many nights or it will start taking a toll on other aspects of your life. Tags: startupcto. The Idea People should keep a journal of ideas. I highly recommend this! Sometimes companies go on code marches to get something to the marketplace.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. · Jan 31, 2010 Taking time to learn more about your potentiatl co-founder ought to be the most important step in a start-up’s life.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

I read through your archives almost religiously before branching out to other marketers. Personally, only a few subjects in my life are interesting. I’m not going to advocate you choose one business model over another because your personality and current life situation dictates what is best, right now, for you.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 27, 2010

I’ve also sought out 80/20 ratios in my life based on what I really want – not just what society says I should want – to build a lifestyle that most people would dream about. It doesn’t do a lot, but what it does is powerful and makes my life easier. However laziness isn’t always beneficial.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

You’re a near and dear friend to whom I owe my very life and trust implicitly in every dimension. Online Life (41). Tags: business vs. technical , founders , meetups , realistic expectations , recruiting. Yeah, that’s probably what it would take. Passing On Founder’s Institute. TechCocktailDC It’s Usual Thing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

A Day in the Life of A Founder For those of you who’ve never started a company, let me assure you that it never happens like the pleasant articles you read in business magazines or in case studies. many of the most successful people i know have some tragic life stories that have driven them to do great things. or perhaps, discontent.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

The purpose of these questions is to evaluate an idea properly before I decide to commit my whole life (and my team) into it. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. What is the one thing that I understand that my competitors don’t? Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Our experience shows that meaningfully appropriate peer groups in the 10 to 30 range are possible for almost all of the tech and life science companies in our database. The trick in selecting the best peer cohort is to be specific on as many dimensions as possible, but not so specific that the peer group is too small. Bookmark the permalink.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

In the aftermath of ea_spouse s post on LiveJournal, quality-of-life conversations in the game development business have taken on a new life and a new urgency. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings. Discuss quality of life issues in the discussion forums. Quality of Life Summit: An IGDA Think-Tank. Introduction.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Reply Michael Pryor , on May 15, 2009 at 10:33 am Said: I won’t dispute your anecdote, but I would like to add that life should be lived not in hopes of a better future. Or rather, having your own office, and a cafeteria and nice walls and a nice desk means you can enjoy your work life today.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Bill Perry’s public life as Secretary of Defense and his subsequent work in preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is public knowledge. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war. And no one who really knew could tell you.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. tags: hiring. Now, if all Candidates were highly robotic with the same human psychology and existential views on life and everything in it, perhaps this would be different – fortunately, however, we’re not widgets. Not logged in. [ log in or register ].

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Moments later my first song started playing: Life Without You by Stevie Ray Vaughn, which was not a bad start. Serendip has been in private alpha since August 2011 and according to a Twapper Keeper Hashtag archive I set up one and a half days ago roughly 1400 listeners tweeted 500 unique URLs with the hash tag #Airing.

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