Customer Development Lean Non-Compete Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. When Netscape went public, it unleashed a frenzy from the public markets for anything related to the internet and signaled to venture investors that there were massive returns to be made investing in anything internet related. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work. IPOs dried up.
Steve Blank
JULY 28, 2011
The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. Until today. billion U.S.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2016
Intel attempted to compete, (and actually owned an ARM license) but fell victim to a classic failure of ignoring a low-end disruptor and hobbling their own chances by deciding not cannibalize their own very profitable x86 business. Risk capital has provided financing for new ideas in the form of startups.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 1, 2011
The combination of venture capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany."
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. This should not deter you. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. What went wrong?
Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. I also wanted to know who our existing customers thought we competed with. What did they think we stood for?
Steve Blank
AUGUST 24, 2009
It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. Too often people abandon their ethics because “hey the other guys is doing it, I have to to do it to compete.&#
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