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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) We must have made them play the demo twenty times. No settings, no buttons – plug your camera or VCR in and it just worked seamlessly.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. The Grand-daddy.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious. Welcome to the Internet bubble.)

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space.

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How One Startup Figured Out What Could Really Help Deaf People

Steve Blank

A month ago, Jason, one of my founder friends, shut down his startup. 1 rule every founder hears over and over: Nobody wants your product until you prove it. How come so many founders still wake up to this horrible truth, after months or years of hard work? Customer Development for us meant a lot of hard-won learnings.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Now there was nothing wrong with their analysis: anyone who invents a technology as sophisticated as The Transformers is definitely going to make a lot of money. Turns out, they were incredibly well-credentialed graduate students who had, in fact, developed some interesting new robotics technology. who is the customer?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21: Grant Warner

Steve Blank

While finding product-market fit is important, getting the rest of the business model right is the difference between and a great demo and a great business. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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