Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Hire around you to fill those weak spots. …. Being in Ohio, which lacks the startup ecosystem of an entrepreneurial cluster like Silicon Valley, made it difficult for Will to get funding for his first startup, Huddlewoo : The type of business that we were building needed an investment of capital ahead of revenue.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 15, 2016
A college degree is great if you’re looking to get hired. A pivotal meeting with nurses at Hospice of Dayton in Ohio helped them figure out what features to build: It was a bit like leading sheep to wolves, and became one of our biggest learning moments. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 15, 2016
A college degree is great if you’re looking to get hired. A pivotal meeting with nurses at Hospice of Dayton in Ohio helped them figure out what features to build: It was a bit like leading sheep to wolves, and became one of our biggest learning moments. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2010
Id like to call special attention to Kurt Carr s perspective (lets hope he finishes his five-part series): Now that I’m back in Ohio (I was one of the token foreigners in a room full of Silicon Valley residents), I have found myself reliving and rethinking much of what I saw there. Steve Blank has been a mentor to me for several years.
Steve Blank
JUNE 16, 2016
Taking money from investors meant that there was pressure to scale, and pressure to hire, and that hire included a high-powered sales executive, but we did this without understanding our own value proposition. Steve : You mean that’s who your investors were telling you to hire? Go hire a sales exec to scale?
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