Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. If you pre-order The Lean Entrepreneur from them, they'll list your name as a co-creator in the book and share material with you as they write.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We have in our partnership a gent by the name of Barry Fidelman who puts us all to shame with his intensity. » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.]

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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.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers. He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I I couldn’t believe it, here we were wasting precious time and the dumb sales guy is talking about other stuff.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Frank Cowell is a speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. With over 20 years of sales, marketing, and leadership experience, Frank serves as Chief Revenue Boss at his latest venture, Revenue Ranch. So Chief Revenue Boss is more so just a tie into the company name and that kind of ranch theming.

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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. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. In California. Where do you start?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

This year, marketing need to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

35:20) Inspiring acts of leadership and working hard. (35:50) My parents and my brother live in Southern California. He was talking about what he thought needed to happen in California and the fact that every state was going to need the kind of expertise was able to muster and probably wouldn't have access to that.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., For better or worse, the city and the Bay Area are now synonymous with entrepreneurship and innovative high-tech thought leadership. Austin, TX.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

You may know it by its final name. Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Thorn, author of “ U-wun-ge-lay-ma “ I recently ran a marathon in Death Valley, California. The faces of the many leaders I have worked with and their individual leadership styles were the scenes that played across the miles. The brutal course was made even worse by a nasty rain storm. Competencies.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Naming a Business. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Leadership and Managing >. Kyle retained the right to name the third board member. Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., For better or worse, the city and the Bay Area are now synonymous with entrepreneurship and innovative thought leadership.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. That meant that our boards were packaged in boxes sold to retailers and were displayed on shelves in their computer stores.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And 30 years later I was teaching in a building named after him and never knew a thing about him. My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave. Spooky Music Reading about Terman was like finding the missing link in my career. Play spooky music here.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Shortly after launching my consulting practice, I took on a leadership position with several professional women’s organizations, Women’s Global Network and Ladies Who Launch, San Diego. Thus the concept for Hera Hub was born (named after the Greek Goddess of women).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In turn, this will put a spotlight on your brand name and its meaning while further engaging consumers. Look to leadership. Kevin Xu is the CEO of MEBO International , a California- and Beijing-based intellectual property management company specializing in applied health systems.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Paul Portney , professor of leadership and former Dean of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, has an interesting piece on the dirth of leadership in American Higher Education. (h/t The piece should also be used to ask if we are being too bounded in our understanding of leadership in higher education.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Latino is the Next Big Break Out At this year’s recent Emmy awards Stephen Colbert rightly pointed out that there had been a marked increase in the number of successes by creators with diverse backgrounds and then proceeded to name several prominent African-American actors, directors and writers that were present. So is Herb a Genius?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools and hospitals named after him? The Modern Corporation Sloan is rightly credited with formalizing the idea of the modern U.S. One guy really did all of this. Who was he?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., For better or worse, the city and the Bay Area are now synonymous with entrepreneurship and innovative thought leadership.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers. If you drop the sentimentality, a company is a merely a brand-name for a historical context. And brand-names are ultimately are just commodities that can be bought and sold (e.g., Agilent is a $5.8 billion dollar test and measurement company.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Who’s next? they are just the beginning.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2012

Executive, change management, and leadership coach at Stanford, Ed Batista has plenty of motivation and advice to share for the aspiring executive. Based on a book of the same name by Professor Daniel Diermeier, this blog touches on issues of reputation management, especially how corporations can successfully navigate a major crisis.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

As its name should communicate, the Customer Development model focuses on developing customers for the product or service your startup is building. Reply Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

An existing market is one where competitors have a profitable business selling to customers who can name the market and can tell you about the features that matter to them. Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.]

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Must-have # 2: A professional name. Trawl LinkedIn for a little while, and you’ll probably come across individuals who use keywords, or even worse, phone numbers and email addresses, as part of their names. LinkedIn is the most trusted social network out there, so you should have a name that is cognizant of its professional atmosphere.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

Because I’d made a name for myself as an innovative marketer in consumer financing, I was then recruited by GE, which still had a consumer finance brand at the time called GE Money. Two weeks later, I was named the executive director of global marketing for GE at the corporate level, working for Beth Comstock.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

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.” Except at this VC conference, 100 or so of the 300 attendees had badges that had their first name and only the last initial of their last name. (And

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

And that he might want to think about aligning all his video and Internet products under that name. As we were plotting marketing strategy, I mentioned that the phrase “Speaking to the Big Dogs” might end up as his corporate brand.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Building a Chart We realized that if we wrote the names of the vertical markets across the top of the board, and then the startup functions on the left of the board, we could make a chart that could visually compare what differs across the vertical markets. Liquidity – How? M&A, IPO?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

Upfront Ventures, a California-based VC firm, released its annual VC Survey Results in January. Namely, Suster lists four attributes that any startup seeking VC funding needs to focus on: Target large markets: If your proposed product or service has a very narrow, niche market appeal, it’s less likely to spark a VC’s interest.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

I just found out that someone stole my idea today and also is using my name with “The&# in front of it. Reply Gabriel Gunderson , on December 3, 2009 at 9:58 am Said: Eager to hear about the less benign time! Thanks for sharing. Reply Chris , on December 3, 2009 at 10:26 am Said: Thanks for sharing.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

My partner had convinced several major Hollywood names that this was the inevitable consequence of the merger of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. We believed that by putting full motion video (i.e. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy. And at the time it was a plausible scenario.)

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