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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. Who would have known?

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Use the Lean Startup - When There's Market Risk The second question is : “What’s the “ Market Type ” of your startup? Let’s not let startups use this as an escape hatch to avoid customer development. Customer Development is unhelpful here. Reply Nivi , on November 16, 2009 at 9:47 am Said: Great stuff.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $’s) We’ll Do Great in the Next War Early in 1950, just months before the outbreak of the Korean War the Office of Naval Research asked Fred Terman to build an Applied electronics program for electronic warfare. military to rearm and mobilize.

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SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at.

Steve Blank

I like to talk about the fact that choosing your segment determines how you will reach your customer, what you will to say to them, and what the sales process will look like (since it depends on the buyer’s process). SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – Market Type at Work « Steve Blank (tags: strategy) [.]

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Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions

Steve Blank

These competitions started in the early 1980 ‘s at the University of Texas and have sprouted like mushrooms in the last 10 years. In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan. Just Google the term and you’ll be amazed.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Just use this line (the ` character is important) `curl -u your_username:your_password -d status="#{message}" [link] As an entrepreneur I am excited to foresee the financial benefits of running RoR applications (no licenses to buy) in my businesses. Glad to hear it’s going well. Reply Dan permalink Way to go Aymeric!

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Great question – let’s start with a bit of self reflection: Close your eyes and visualize your group of closest friends. It’s most comfortable to hang out with people like ourselves, but those are exactly the folks you probably don’t want to co-found a startup with. Seems a bit unintuitive, right?