Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Now I knew that it began in the early days of World War II as a crash program to reduce the losses of bombers to the German air defense network. My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave. Electronic warfare and signals intelligence in the U.S. started with Fred Terman and the Harvard Radio Research Lab.

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APRIL 15, 2016

There was no demand in companies for using a wide area network like the Internet and they didn’t believe that the demand would ever be there so we got no funding. — When Michael and his father started the Robert Mondavi Winery, few people were drinking California wines. It was “France is great” and “California is jug wine.”

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APRIL 15, 2016

There was no demand in companies for using a wide area network like the Internet and they didn’t believe that the demand would ever be there so we got no funding. — When Michael and his father started the Robert Mondavi Winery, few people were drinking California wines. It was “France is great” and “California is jug wine.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

One OSRD project – the Manhattan Project – the development of the atomic bomb – was so secret and important that it was spun off as a separate program. Army – build teams that deliver solutions to complex problems, with access to the entire network of suppliers and partners that Newell and Felter developed throughout their careers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know the archetype of their customers? Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

Don’t confuse your passion for your tools with why your customers will buy your product. Also, are you available for talks at a Silicon Valley networking group for job seekers. There is talk about trying to make a “vision&# into a non-profit.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

She left high school at 15 to attend Simon’s Rock Early College, then studied computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Peggy : I networked. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Jessica has been starting her own Internet businesses and programming since middle school.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Fifth , would other schools be interested in offering this class? 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Fifth , would other schools be interested in offering this class? 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like. And even if you don’t win, participation in the event itself can open up your network and lead to possible future possibilities.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. The arc converter basically used the negative resistance of the an electric arc to cancel the positive resistance of an LC network thereby causing it to oscillate in a pure narrow-band CW frequency (aka Q-tuning).

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

It also means that you will be tied to horrible health care providers if your employer bought a cheap plan with a limited network. And, we have terrible restrictions in many places in California that prevent us from building up – this is why you don’t see skyscraper apartment buildings around here unlike in NYC.

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

It also means that you will be tied to horrible health care providers if your employer bought a cheap plan with a limited network. And, we have terrible restrictions in many places in California that prevent us from building up – this is why you don’t see skyscraper apartment buildings around here unlike in NYC.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20). New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. What went wrong? So what gives?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Which is a huge strength and has network benefits that people couldn’t anticipate. Not only the theorists but constituents for customer development, or with Main Street businesses and local constituents. We need to know what sweet spots for customer development work best with zoom and that don’t work best with zoom.

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MARCH 26, 2012

And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. Principal Investigator: Ellis Meng University of Southern California. Principal Investigator: Jacob Schmidt University of California-Los Angeles.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. As a going away gift my roommates got me a joke disguise kit with a fake nose, glasses and mustache. But when the targets lit up, the music and chatter would stop, and the communications would get very professional.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

So at times multiple ELINT planes would fly on a mission – one to run at the Soviet border appearing to attack, the other to pick up the signals from the air defense network as it responded to the intrusion. Keep in mind that 32 of these planes were shot down in the Cold War.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. September 9, 2009 12:36 AM Richard Tibbetts said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

His challenge was, as he put it, “Converting Intuit to run on Lean Startup principles by converting Intuit to be a network of lean startups.” Customers disliked this two-step process in early testing, and so Carol’s team built a version of the app that ran entirely on mobile, and was a one-stop-shop for tax preparation.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

To protect their country, the Soviets were building an air defense network to warn, track and destroy these attacking bombers. ——– The Korean War catapulted Stanford University’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) into a major player in electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

This requires deep customer and competitive knowledge. Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Reply Innovation Ecosystems Network » The Next Silicon Valley , on August 17, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] play in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. But where did they come from? Here’s a little history lesson, courtesy of serial entrepreneur Steve [.]

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? Cisco’s driving force is building products for network professionals. Customer Development Help Affordable Customer Development Support!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Customer development isn’t just for [.] Reply Customer Development Oriented Lead Developer for Start-up – EventSession , on November 9, 2009 at 4:27 pm Said: [.] understands and groks Customer Development. Customer development isn’t just for [.]

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). Make it unique.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. provide experienced and hands-on mentorship; and offer a growing network of founding CEOs.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Social networking. share Powerpoints and docs with customers. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. cmypitch.com : Network for small business, connecting entrepreneurs with each other, investors and service providers. Codeacademy.

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