Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Now I knew that it began in the early days of World War II as a crash program to reduce the losses of bombers to the German air defense network. Finally, I had an answer to the question I had asked 35 years earlier when I was in Thailand: “How did electronic warfare get started?&# Electronic warfare and signals intelligence in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know the archetype of their customers? Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

Don’t confuse your passion for your tools with why your customers will buy your product. Also, are you available for talks at a Silicon Valley networking group for job seekers. There is talk about trying to make a “vision&# into a non-profit.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” On first glance it appears as if they are spending to much energy in the vertical portion of the jump, relative to the horizontal portion. Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

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. >> social network/web analysis/etc. There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like. And even if you don’t win, participation in the event itself can open up your network and lead to possible future possibilities.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. The arc converter basically used the negative resistance of the an electric arc to cancel the positive resistance of an LC network thereby causing it to oscillate in a pure narrow-band CW frequency (aka Q-tuning).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If your network has expressed an interest in additional services, pivoting is a no-brainer. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. It was a tough decision, as we spent a lot of work researching, developing offers, and producing our messaging. When clients ask, “Do you do X?,” There’s plenty of pie to go around.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases. Key-based partitioning.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

So at times multiple ELINT planes would fly on a mission – one to run at the Soviet border appearing to attack, the other to pick up the signals from the air defense network as it responded to the intrusion. Keep in mind that 32 of these planes were shot down in the Cold War.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

But when the targets lit up, the music and chatter would stop, and the communications would get very professional.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

To protect their country, the Soviets were building an air defense network to warn, track and destroy these attacking bombers. ——– The Korean War catapulted Stanford University’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) into a major player in electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

This requires deep customer and competitive knowledge. Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Reply Innovation Ecosystems Network » The Next Silicon Valley , on August 17, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] play in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. But where did they come from? Here’s a little history lesson, courtesy of serial entrepreneur Steve [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Customer development isn’t just for [.] Reply Customer Development Oriented Lead Developer for Start-up – EventSession , on November 9, 2009 at 4:27 pm Said: [.] understands and groks Customer Development. Customer development isn’t just for [.]

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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