Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Two years ago I moved to Beijing, where, as the founder of SoHelpful.me, I take calls from all over the world, talking entrepreneurship and innovation with people in 30-minute intervals. Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ We should pivot.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Technologists were running companies, as no serious MBAs would go near these places, and investors were company builders, teaching founders how to grow revenue and profit. For decades I couldn’t understand why.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Technologists were running companies, as no serious MBAs would go near these places, and investors were company builders, teaching founders how to grow revenue and profit. For decades I couldn’t understand why.

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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. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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