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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. Get Out of Building Our trip to North Carolina was part of a year long effort to get out of the building to understand our market, customers and their applications. They would all work in this one company.

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

Steve Blank

The life sciences community is still warming-up to the value of customer development in the early stages of building new ventures”, says David Schonthal , MATTER Co-founder and Clinical Assistant Professor of entrepreneurship & innovation at the Kellogg School of Management.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C Unintended Lessons « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/09/28/unintended-lessons – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

We were probably a little bit arrogant in our thinking of what we could create and how we could lead developers to create these ideas that we have. The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. North Carolina is big basketball country, a big basketball world like ACC, Duke, UNC.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Steve Blank

It took too long to develop and … it really wasn’t ubiquitously accessible. The thing that I really took away from that was the interplay and complexity of the industry between the developers and the channels and the integrators. I schlepped two of our most senior developers on an airplane. I was like, “Oh, my God.