Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

In reality I had been hired as CEO and the adult supervision and administrative overseer of one of the most creative talents in the valley. Of course, they could be useful in creating liquidity events, but absent bubbly environment and disrupting marketplace what is the point? We understood none of this.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" What did you take from idea on the back of a napkin to liquidity event?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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