Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. 2009 – Back to The Future The bad news is that since the bubble most VC firms haven’t made a profit. And given the “clubbiness&# of the venture business there appears to be little self policing of steering entrepreneurs away from firms that are bad news.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

However, in catching up with the VP of Sales of Ardent last night, I was reminded one of the few times I did return for closure. The search for commercial supercomputer applications was good news for Ardent, as this was our business as well. It was for sale on Ebay. I liked to fail fast, move on, and not look back.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >>

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

McMicking and Terman introduced Ampex to the National Security Agency, and Ampex sales boomed when their audio and video recorders became the standard for Electronic Intelligence and telemetry signal collection recorders. Ampex business took off when Terman introduced Ampex founder Alex Poniatoff to Joseph and Henry McMicking.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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