Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product. Others say Larry Spitters & Co. So, here is my assignment.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2022

Our business model is based on our desire to help more people create sustainable wealth and in so doing, develop healthy habits and great examples of leadership that could easily be transferred to the next generation. So, the word vertical is what I have been looking for. Thanks to Stella Cooper, PaydayLoansUK ! #14-

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) A company called Aapps, founded by Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari), make a product called the MicroTV, Digivideo, and Digivideo Color in the 1990 – 1991 timeframe that displayed live video in a window on the Mac.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Mat Ellis is the CEO and founder of Cloudability. CIOs have a once in a lifetime opportunity to provide the leadership needed to guide their companies through these challenges. Defrag and Gluecon founder Eric Norlin believes there are three defining characteristics of this integration shift. New issues to resolve.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Rich Karlgaard , publisher of Forbes and co-founder of the Churchill Club refereed the event. The Churchill Club , Silicon Valley’s largest public affairs organization, invited Carl Schramm , president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation and I to talk about entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. Leo Beranek led the EAL and went on to co-found BBN. to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes. At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2010

StoredIQ has rapidly gained traction with customers across several vertical industries, including financial services, healthcare and oil and gas. I am delighted to join StoredIQ’s leadership team and capitalize on the tremendous market opportunity that now exists to solve this critical information management problem.&#.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2016

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. However, sometimes business owners, company founders and independent operators have to take a tough look in the mirror. But leadership is about more than assigning tasks, and effective delegation is actually a learned business skill. Will you start today?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

by Manni Sidhu, Co-founder and CEO of Coleegs , and William Gilchrist , Founder and CEO of Konsyg. A new challenge has bloomed for founders and managers in the Covid-19 era –how do they set key performance indicators (KPIs) for the years ahead? Founders should focus on stability. Will our funding dry out?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

My co-founder, head of business development and I were in Japan raising money. —– The next time one of my ideas was “borrowed,” it was a little less benign and more like the nightmare founders fear. I used it in all presentations and gave it at industry conferences. Are those my initials on the slide?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Is the company hosting/co-sponsoring some event? Key Influencers Does the company have press/industry analysts scheduled for demos? Does the company have demos or dinners/lunch scheduled for key industry influencers? Plus tips on overall trade show strategy.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. make that fourteen years now).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. If you’re are a startup founder or an early employee, there may come a time in your relationship that your significant other/spouse will ask you the “ what’s more important? But the problem was that I was married.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The Applied Bioplastics Co-Founders: CEO Colin Ardern and CRO Alex Blum The Forrest Four-Cast: February 29, 2020 We’ve got a serious plastic problem. Alex Blum , Applied Bioplastics’ Co-Founder and CRO, has led the charge on bringing their team together. Less than 4 percent of plastics are recycled in any way.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Our guest today is Fredrik Thomassen, the co-founder and CEO of Superside , a Sam Altman and Slack-backed company that's building a new labor market for global design talent. Our leadership team sets a good example by being highly responsive to Slack messages and other forms of communication.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Company : RiotVine.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. Thanks to Alexi Venneri, Digital Air Strike ! #6)

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Our emphasis isn’t on slide decks and governance, but instead on helping founders build leadership, steady cadence and periodic strategic discussion into their thinking, which we believes contributes to startups being more prepared for a successful A Round. The majority of founders we speak with are raising a $1-2.5

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Heather is an outspoken advocate for women in tech leadership roles and building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. This post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply what my wife and I did to raise our kids in the middle of starting multiple companies. Read the previous post first for context.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Working at a mighty mid-sized agency provides employees the unique opportunity to grow within their positions and assume leadership roles. We create a culture of leadership through our comfortable environment where everyone from a new intern to the CMO can share ideas and brainstorm with the executive team. Photo Credit: Dmitri Oster.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I’d like to add [link] as a community for founders. I am not associated with the company. Reply Dave Jafari , on April 10, 2011 at 10:11 am said: Great list Steve. Reply Faren , on April 11, 2011 at 1:40 am said: Hi Steve, Thanks for adding my ipod, ipad and web wireframe template post to your list.

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