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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?”

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

From the king of customer development, Steve Blank: [.] I love Google. I think its one of the smartest companies out there. You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful. Sometimes they just drop out and do their own thing.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Terman arranged for a research assistantship to bring his former student, David Packard, back from a job at General Electric in New York to collaborate with William Hewlett, another of Terman’s graduate students. A wave of silicon innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital. Terman was also on the board of HP.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors written 40 years ago is still a business classic.