Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

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. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

This is a company that when they were founded, it wasn’t just that they were competing against other companies, but they were competing against industries and regulations and governments that wanted to essentially regulate them out of existence. Here’s my new rule book and we’re all going to follow my new lead. RH: Yeah, totally agree.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

There Ought to be a Law Nowadays there are laws that allow you to back out of a time-share condo contract, or used car purchase after seven days because even the government believes there are times when grown adults lose their minds and stand up and yell “Yes I believe, sign me up!”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Reply Anthony , on April 7, 2009 at 1:10 pm Said: “One candidate got a C in macroeconomics…That’s troubling to me.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I It’s the third side of the triangle — the oft-neglected, misunderstood, and underfunded soft edge — that constitutes my book. Story can create legends that an entire workplace culture can build upon, grow with, and lean on. I call this the “hard edge.”)

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

government kept up the pace. From a standing start in 1942 the U.S. scaled up the production of U-235 and plutonium from micrograms to tens of kilograms by 1945. We built new cities in Hanford, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos and put 130,000 people to work on the project. During the cold war, the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors. This post is about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

As part of this spin out I’d make sure the Government also supports the nascent U.S. As I said, I am far from an expert in the auto industry, government bailouts or other related big “businesses”. Maybe the public can be better served by the government just subsidizing battery research. with the auto bailout. Reply Michael F.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

NET (and Java) experience are big bright red-flags in my book. It’s like arguing against vertical software. In my case, I look for programmers that read a wide variety of books. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET Doesn’t justify auto-rejection, but it does make me scrutinize a bit closer.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. I got very lucky early on because someone introduced me to a book by David Goldhill called “Catastrophic Care.” Bill Gurley : Great. He runs the Game Show Network.

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