archive tag man-in-the-middle 
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did this culture of “make it happen&# emerge, etc.
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2009
Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.”
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Steve Blank
MAY 18, 2009
We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I said, “well for me you’d have to add coming from a dysfunctional family.” It was one of the characteristics I specifically looked for.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 22, 2010
Isn’t WebEx already dead man walking? This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. And then eBay bought them for $2.6
Steve Blank
MAY 7, 2009
At a university business plan competition, for the first time they can swim in the sea of expertise that we/I take for granted in the middle of Silicon Valley. I hate business plan competitions. He was visiting Stanford and mentioned how proud he was that several of his Thai students were here in the States for a business plan competition.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Through my platform choices, I have forced many people to learn PHP and to work with it on a regular basis.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2009
If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. The story ends in 1969 with campus riots at Stanford.
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