Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Filed under: SuperMac | Tagged: Early Stage Startup , Steve Blank « There’s a Pattern Here SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within – So Get the Hell Outside the Building » Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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JUNE 11, 2009

a comment » Yet another brilliant post from Steve Blank, this time about what it takes to found, co-found, or work in a startup at various stages of [.] a comment » Yet another brilliant post from Steve Blank, this time about what it takes to found, co-found, or work in a startup at various stages of [.]

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on December 7, 2009 at 6:06 am Said: [.] This post was mentioned on Twitter by steve blank, Tina Seelig. Perfect timing on sharing this pearl Steve. Reply Sean Mahoney , on December 7, 2009 at 7:09 am Said: Steve – Thanks for sharing this story. Thanks for the wisdom.

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JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

When I asked our trade show manager she looked at me like I was the house idiot and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to set up our trade show booth?” I just wish I don’t have to fight another company with such an unstoppable team led by Steve for my life. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. We were sitting in our cheap hotel room when the phone rang.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] Reply Jerry Sheridan , on November 6, 2009 at 2:12 pm Said: Steve, I don’t think you and I overlapped at CT (I was there from 87-91), but your picture looks familiar.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. steve BrianB , on May 30, 2009 at 4:14 am Said: Hi Steve, Thank you for this really great blog. this post Steve Blank urges startup founders to consider what kind of risk they face if they want to be [.]

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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. steve MIchael W. , It was fun watching it happen.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System » 20 Responses brantcooper , on March 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm Said: Great story, Steve. SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Glad to see you blogging! Very much in addition to the text.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

my father who had been at Harvard in ’60s remembered the excellent lab manuals that Terman had authored (including some at MIT Lincoln Lab) and brought an old edition for me that was a revelation in radio, modulation, and radar… Reply Ben Tanen , on April 27, 2009 at 10:18 am Said: Awesome post, Steve. Few writers do it well.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.” I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

King James Bible, New Testament – Matthew 7:7 Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Zilog | Tagged: Entrepreneurs , Steve Blank « The Road Not Taken He’s Only in Field Service » 20 Responses Mike Paciello , on July 27, 2009 at 8:54 am Said: Thanks Steve. Thanks Steve!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Reply SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values « Steve Blank , on April 9, 2009 at 5:02 am Said: [.] Reply SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank , on April 30, 2009 at 5:02 am Said: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Reply Hazem Awad , on March 21, 2009 at 10:12 pm Said: Hi Steve, Thanks a lot for these articles. Reply Claire Barry , on April 17, 2009 at 9:10 pm Said: Hi Steve, Memory Lane! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The “what did I learn so far&# is also a valuable summary. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Reply Terence Pua , on July 30, 2009 at 9:27 am Said: Steve, I’ve read and re-read that section in Chapter 2 re: market types and I still don’t fully comprehend. hope this helps, steve Terence Pua , on July 30, 2009 at 10:02 am Said: Thank you very much. Market types seem more nuanced than I originally thought.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Signals Intelligence , Cold War , Fred Terman , Electonic Warfare « I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help You Coffee With Startups » 5 Responses Business Incubation 101 (India) « InnExperience – Innovation goes bananas!!

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

———— T o: Marketing Department From: Steve Subject: Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters Generating Leads Ownership If your company is going to a show to generate leads, then sales owns the show. Hope this helps steve Morteza Tatlari , on May 22, 2009 at 9:14 pm Said: Thanks Steve for your answer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Filed under: ESL , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Bill Perry , ESL , Signals Intelligence , Cold War « Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? Reply John Bumgarner , on July 2, 2009 at 5:43 pm Said: Thanks for the words Steve! Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Reply Miguel Cavalcanti , on May 18, 2009 at 8:12 pm Said: Hello Steve, great pst, tks for sharing your knowledge. Best, Miguel Cavalcanti, from Brazil Reply Colin Rae , on September 22, 2010 at 2:20 pm Said: Steve, in many of your posts I’ve noticed you say certain things can not be delegated/outsourced (e.g Order Here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Theyve invested in many great companies , including IMVU , Digg , Kongregate , Twitter.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

the next day, Steve Blank posted on the startup transition from faith to facts. Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Steve Blank: Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making — 1:57pm via Google [.] Order Here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

steve Reply links for 2009-04-22 « Blarney Fellow , on April 22, 2009 at 5:13 pm Said: [.] Killing Innovation with Corner Cases and Consensus « Steve Blank in startups, you can’t allow a “corner case” to derail fearless decision making. tags: startup productivity) [.] Yep, that’s what I meant.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « The End of Innocence The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1) » 21 Responses Kulveer Taggar , on August 27, 2009 at 11:18 am Said: Great post.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types | Tagged: Customer Development « The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? What I remind my students is that in Customer Discovery you leave your slide deck at home.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) « Steve Blank (tags: product-management startup strategy customer-development) [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

It’s a tough balance to strike, because as Steve Jobs has proven, the market doesn’t always know what it wants in advance, so you can’t just allow your customers to dictate your product strategy. In reading Coffee with Startups (by Steve Blank) I couldn’t help but think about the fact that Steve has outlined a clear [.]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 2) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) [.] Reply The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) « Steve Blank , on September 16, 2009 at 8:00 pm Said: [.] Customer Development Manifesto Part II [.]

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Reply Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » A raiz da alta taxa de fracassos das Startups: o modelo tradicional de desenvolvimento - Conceitos e práticas sobre Lean Startups e empreendedorismo em geral , on December 1, 2009 at 10:16 am Said: [.] Steve chama esse framework de Product Development Model. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

Reply Ray Debs , on April 29, 2009 at 6:55 pm Said: Hi Steve, I am thoroughly enjoying reading your blog posts, and looking forward to more. steve Dave OFlynn , on April 29, 2009 at 8:01 pm Said: “Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.&# It may not be for you.

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Steve Blank

MAY 1, 2009

steve Customer Development is Hard. Blank, he of “Customer Development,&# jokes that, to put it mildly, The Four Steps to the Epiphany, is a difficult read. Reply Excellent video for tech startups…by Eric Ries , on May 23, 2009 at 2:16 pm Said: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

steve Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply steveblank , on March 8, 2010 at 4:29 pm Said: Thanks! Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Actually, I’ve got a better memory of spilling car polish on a Colonel’s nicely shined shoes… Reply Andrei Marinescu , on May 13, 2009 at 7:26 am Said: Great story, Steve. Reply Steve Blank Suspends Gravity: Context And Authority , on May 13, 2009 at 9:23 am Said: [.] Thanks for sharing it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Tips for Startups « The Sharp End of the Stick Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions » 2 Responses links for 2009-05-06 « Blarney Fellow , on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm Said: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Shortly thereafter, Andrew Beinbrink, CEO of the interesting San Diego start-up SportsTV, introduced me to Seal Ellis who introduced me to Steven Blank’s book The Four Steps to Epiphany, which sounded an awful lot like what I had blogged about. And Steve’s got a new blog. [.] I’ll try to mix the topics up during the week.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Mike Reply Steve Blank starts a blog (and tweets too) - Venture Hacks , on March 20, 2009 at 4:34 pm Said: [.] a snippet from one of Steve’s posts, There’s a Pattern Here, to get you started: “So what is it that makes some startups successful and leaves others [.] Looking forward to more in the coming months.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan | Tagged: Durant , Sloan « Unintended Lessons Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal » 7 Responses Prakash S , on October 1, 2009 at 11:02 am Said: Have you read this? Gary Hoover Reply Michael F.

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