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. Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

It turns out my unconscious search for a stable, structured environment is a common theme among many military recruits.). We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Here was an environment where what you could accomplish meant more than who you knew.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

It turns out my unconscious search for a stable, structured environment is a common theme among many military recruits.). We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Here was an environment where what you could accomplish meant more than who you knew.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Michigan Miami 120

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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