Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

An interesting phenomena of the 1920s that illustrates the fragility and cost of vacuum tubes is the “Reflex Receiver&# design methodology. This is an innovative but slightly bizarre design technique common to the 1920s and 1930s that conserved the number of vacuum tubes required for a radio receiver.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

You can find a lot of great videos, blogs and books on the Internet, but there is still no replacement for direct one-on-one mentoring. Capital Factory focuses on hosting community programming that educates and inspires entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, and community leaders. The Internet is full of great videos and blogs.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. It has to be little-endian or we won’t design your chip into our systems.” The reaction from the chip circuit design guys was, “OK, we could do that. What a great idea.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

I’m at jordan.cooper@gmail.com or blogging here: jordancooper.wordpress.com Reply Alain Raynaud , on November 12, 2009 at 4:42 pm Said: Or maybe it’s just the last slide that convinced the VCs. This is my new favorite post on your blog. I am a young entrepreneur here, absolutely dying to hear the talk.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Below we copy from Steve Blank’s blog. Blank asks a lot of the right questions in his blog post: Am I a Founder? Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. takes to be a founder or co-founder of a company, or even an early participant. Reply Are You Ready? The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

on Cafepress, but is now literally priceless since the copyright owner put it on his blog.) Reply Pros and cons of Push and Pull product positioning and differentiation « Yet Another (ex-)VC Blog , on February 21, 2010 at 11:14 am Said: [.] Absolutely priceless. Well, it used to be $29.95

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. So our people in the field could correct any egregious design advice I gave to customers who mattered. How did I miss that?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well. Reply shiftMode » Blog Archive » Nobody Cares About Your Product , on August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply A victim’s account of a hostile outburst by his abusive boss « eBossWatch Blog , on October 15, 2009 at 1:23 pm Said: [.] 15, 2009 Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank blogged about being on the receiving end of a hostile outburst from his “abusive boss,&# the [.] of huge losses made by Nokia.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

This year, with the kids grown, their choice was to fly up from Southern California and spend the holidays at our ranch. California, where even the rabbits are bigger than life! Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Your ranch has rattlesnakes and rabbits bigger than you?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Your blog post has provided a lot of useful insights for me which I’ve been implementing. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. The Customer Development Process I teach and write about is designed to do just that. You may have a set of hypothesis about them but you really don’t know.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. the “schedule fantasy factor,”) or his eleven rules of supercomputer design but also a real appreciation for how a technical visionary thinks. (I The response from across the country? Glad you two called, we were trying to get a hold of you guys. We’re building a supercomputer.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile my partner was in heaven working with his newly hired group of game designers directing and producing our first games. Stop annoying our game designers and start working on selling and marketing the games.” Great blog setup by the way, enjoying the narrative/play by play including ignoring your nagging (rational) fears.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your blog is on my must read list in Google Reader, and it’s always a great read. I just started a blog here: [link]. This article is typical, very useful. I like how the tone adopted doesnt try to push stuff down my throat but at the same time disclaimers dont disclaim everything.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Because of the vagaries of how floating point units in computers were designed, your average IBM mainframe of the day would take forever to run a simulation application. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. A supercomputer could be a 100x faster. What Markets?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

a bit more panache and patience, they’re likely to break less furniture as they leave,&# blogs Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and author of “The Four Steps to the [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Reply Nathan Furr , on September 24, 2009 at 9:20 am Said: Great post and wise advice.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) Computer hardware companies were faced with their customers asking for low-cost (relatively) desktop computers they had no experience in building.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Darcy Murphy , on March 21, 2009 at 9:46 pm Said: I’m really impressed with your stories – in fact, that’s what I like about this blog the most, you’re writing stories. I’ve never said this before on a blog, but I can’t wait for your next post. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

We talked about some simple design rules and I remember him thanking me for coming, saying we were the only chip company who cared enough to call on him (little did he know.) Long gone from Zilog I saw the picture of the original Macintosh design team. I thought nothing about the meeting until years later.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

PS1- I run a small software startup in Brazil and just found out about Customer Development and your blog (I’ve been reading and listening to everything I can get my hands on online, like Venturehacks and Ries’ blog). Reply Daily Review #21 | The Queue Blog , on November 9, 2009 at 8:06 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. He showed me a little Korean hard drive portable music player, not much more than the Compaq reference design it was based off of. com Michael Robertson.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I forget that other people actually read this blog. I think that one of the good themes of this blog is that years != “dog years&# in deep industries. To Steve B: thanks for a great blog, and connecting so many outlying or just plain uncorrelated dots. Say that gives 15 years in business. I’m not quite 40.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. What a sly dog you are (wink) having set your “competitor&# up for failure. Good read and thanks to the comments on this post.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw. Glad to see you blogging! thanks Reply Denis , on March 27, 2009 at 7:05 pm Said: Steve, is this blog in addition to the book or instead of it? Steve Blank has started a blog.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. How could it go wrong? Little did I know.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards. We were on the bottom row – with an invisible box. We labeled this our “Black Hole of Packaging&# strategy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I distinctly remember this is the first time I head the phrases “features and benefits.&# And since I saw our ads (but didn’t quite understand them,) I knew marketing was the group that designed them, somehow to get customers to think our products were better than Intel and Motorola’s. But Intel was kicking our rear.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Thanks so much for sharing such stories.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

My daughter, now 14, has her own company, doing web design and PHP and CSS and who knows what else. Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 16th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 15, 2009 at 8:11 pm Said: [.] When they went to school, I went back to the office, starting an editorial services company in Shanghai.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Someone from your company has to be designated the official competitive intelligence officer for this show. Someone from your company has to be designated the opportunity monitor, responsible for coordinating potential partner information and disseminating it in writing after the show. One of them is a loser.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. Terman became a consultant to the company.

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