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JUNE 11, 2009

tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime Take the time and think through who you are and what level of challenge you are looking for. You’re not joining a big company. But make sure it fits who you are.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Specifically we’re working on building information stream handling tools (reducing large lists of incoming links and text into topical tags that can be searched or manually dug through) as well as connecting ads to a users interests (same tags now used for relevant ads/plugins).

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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. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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MAY 28, 2009

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: [.] How would that change my company strategy? We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital | Tagged: Entrepreneurs « Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) » 16 Responses Jon Ziskind , on September 14, 2009 at 9:19 am Said: Steve – Great post and really great advice.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.”

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JUNE 25, 2009

Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores « Steve Blank (tags: startup presuation) [.] links for 2009-06-25 « Blarney Fellow , on June 25, 2009 at 6:08 pm Said: [.]

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APRIL 27, 2009

On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. The archives are amazing when you get a box full of correspondence on (real!) Shelton | Blog » Blog Archive » Links: April 29th , on April 29, 2009 at 12:02 am Said: [.] Reply Benjamin A.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. 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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MARCH 25, 2009

SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.] Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System » 20 Responses brantcooper , on March 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm Said: Great story, Steve. Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-03-26 , on March 27, 2009 at 1:02 am Said: [.]

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.] Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! Steve Blank [.] Reply links for 2009-12-08 « that dismal science , on December 8, 2009 at 11:31 am Said: [.] They Raised Money With My Slides?!

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MARCH 20, 2009

Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions.

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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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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. Get out of the building and meet people.

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APRIL 2, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? » 8 Responses Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution « Yet Another VC Blog , on April 2, 2009 at 6:19 am Said: [.] via SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution — the Potrero Benchmarks « St… [.]

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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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JULY 30, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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APRIL 30, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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JUNE 5, 2009

Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Faith-based versus Fact-based , on June 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm Said: [.] Put faith in facts!

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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: [.] And even more importantly, was there any way to reduce risk in early stage ventures?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Eighty some pages later I realized that a) I had some great war stories as a good marketeer and failed CEO, b) I’d have to pay my wife and kids to read them, c) the three of them were probably the entire total available market, and d) when I looked at what I had done and what other entrepreneurs had done at their startups, that there was a pattern.

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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: [.]

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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? Bill Perry put us on the path to use Silicon Valley as a weapon in the cold war.

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MAY 22, 2009

What didn’t? Write it down and keep it in a tradeshow handbook for those who will follow. Go to trade shows like it matters.

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APRIL 22, 2009

tags: startup productivity) [.] Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » The Role of Corner Cases in BPM , on May 5, 2009 at 3:40 pm Said: [.] Any startup that’s striving for consensus on corner cases instead of speed and tempo will be out of business. Yep, that’s what I meant.

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MAY 1, 2009

If you’ve never seen Eric’s Lean Startup presentation, take a few minutes to at least watch his part. It starts at ~40:30 in the video.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Mark Suster. link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. Caterina Fake. Zach Klein.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] Reply Ask the Angels » Blog Archive » Friday Random Ramblings…and Some Good Weekend Reading , on October 9, 2009 at 2:42 pm Said: [.]

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APRIL 29, 2009

Every potential startup founder should think about their level of comfort operating in chaos and uncertainty. It may not be for you.

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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) [.] carry on reading.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 2) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) [.] ——————- Part 3 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow. Reply links for 2009-09-03 « Blarney Fellow , on September 3, 2009 at 6:09 pm Said: [.]

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MARCH 22, 2009

I’ll try to mix the topics up during the week. BTW, keep the comments coming, they’re read and appreciated.

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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? shoes in order to deduce possible competitors’ moves and anticipate customer needs.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

link] steve Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » Bem-vindos - Just another WordPress weblog , on November 30, 2009 at 10:31 am Said: [.] Its basic propositions are the antithesis of common wisdom yet they are followed by those who succeed. It is the path that is hidden in plain sight.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank (tags: startups business) [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime. » 2 Responses Knowtu » links for 2009-06-09 , on June 9, 2009 at 6:04 pm Said: [.]

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 10, 2010

Mark Suster has an great explanation of this in his blog post: 6 Tips for Using the @ sign in Twitter. It doesn’t tell you what that tag really means, and, it doesn’t drive users to an action. This is especially true because Twitter does a rather poor job of archiving and making tweets searchable.

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MAY 13, 2009

Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank (tags: humor) Comments (0) [.] Reply Ashleighs Dump » Blog Archive » Turning off gravity , on September 6, 2009 at 11:19 pm Said: [.] And I always say, “No, never heard of it, tell me about it.” The story was even better when someone else told it.

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