Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

I was traveling with the regional sales manager who had called on these companies, gotten them interested and now needed someone from the factory to provide technical details and answer questions about how the product could be configured and customized. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers. Their engineers hated us.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. Is this behavior an outlier or is it the norm in the PR industry? Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

It will come after you come home at 2 am in the morning after missing a dinner/movie date you promised to make. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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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. There’s certainly nothing wrong with gathering feedback any time you can, and travel expenses are rough right now so you make do.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This traffic has significantly more value than topical traffic, and excels at attracting endemic advertisers in the key verticals of travel, auto, tech, financial services, real estate and pharma, to name a few. Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. 27 September 2012 at 2:40 pm. #. Tags Amazon.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

9 trackbacks } links for 2007-12-18 | mad dog in the fog December 18, 2007 at 9:20 am BlueBlog: Software Engineering Tips for Startups December 18, 2007 at 9:47 am Jengates Blog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-12-18 December 18, 2007 at 7:26 pm links for 2007-12-19 « Amy G. Like an old school travel suitcase!

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

I got to travel and see almost every type of Rust Belt factory – at the time, the heart and muscle of American manufacturing – GM, American Motors, Ford, U.S. This station just had one guy with a 2×4 piece of lumber, a large rubber mallet and a folded blanket. Steel, Whirlpool. Let me know what you think.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

To date we’re bootstrapping to get to an arbitrary step 2 to get to proof of concept and so we can get the people we want to take us seriously, both angels/VCs and CTOs. Tags: startupcto. Blog at WordPress.com.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? The high salaries and commissions for sales people, sales engineers, travel costs, and office costs add up to an extraordinarily high figure. Insides sales people are not only less expensive in direct salary costs, but also in travel costs. LIAD new to this blog.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

This next product, the Traveling Wave Tube, would have a major impact on electronic intelligence. Now Stanford’s Electronics Research Laboratory delivered another tube which forever changed electronic intelligence receivers - the Traveling Wave Tube (TWT.) The NSA owned COMINT collection.)

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2020

Consider a hypothetical: Your data shows that 2% of your emails are bouncing, but an additional 10% are making it to the Email Service Provider (ESP) server then being pushed into spam. It also checks for bad links, missing alt tags, excessive load times, and more. The difference is important. Image source ). Image source ).

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Unbeknownst to me, I was facing a choice between becoming an entrepreneur or working for a large company. I chose a path and never looked back.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On Tags: startupcto. Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 process in detail.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford became one of the leading research centers in advancing the state of microwave tubes including the klystron which could provide high-power microwave in pulses, magnetrons which could provide continuous wave microwave power, and backward wave oscillators and traveling wave tubes – both electronically tunable microwave tubes.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Travel only if it needed me. When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 process in detail.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Two Roads Diverged in a Wood and I took the Road Less Traveled By, And That Has Made All the Difference Extraordinary times bring extraordinary people to the front. My officemate who would replace me on the site, Richard Farley , would go on to a more tragic career.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Filed under: Air Force , Secret History of Silicon Valley | Tagged: Steve Blank « Watch This Space SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type&# at Work » 14 Responses Michael F. Reply marty , on March 24, 2009 at 2:39 pm Said: Great stories!! Thanks John, wherever you are.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 2, 2011

If you dig into the archives of this blog, you won’t find any articles specifically about how to write a good headline. When I started I had never really “done&# writing before, beyond university assignments and emails written to friends and family while traveling.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 16, 2010

Case study 1: Lingopal The first is the Facebook page of Lingopal, an iphone travel app. When you first open the Facebook page, you are greeted with a funny info, a well chosen picture and you are encouraged to like the page: 2. Case study 2 – Not pixel perfect yet 5. You can find the classic “Hello”, “How are you?”

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 16, 2010

Case study 1: Lingopal The first is the Facebook page of Lingopal, an iphone travel app. When you first open the Facebook page, you are greeted with a funny info, a well chosen picture and you are encouraged to like the page: 2. Case study 2 – Not pixel perfect yet 5. You can find the classic “Hello”, “How are you?”

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 16, 2010

Case study 1: Lingopal The first is the Facebook page of Lingopal, an iphone travel app. When you first open the Facebook page, you are greeted with a funny info, a well chosen picture and you are encouraged to like the page: 2. Case study 2 – Not pixel perfect yet 5. You can find the classic “Hello”, “How are you?”

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