David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I’m not getting paid like an investment banker. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. One day I was having lunch with my boss and I’d worked really hard on the weekend, and he said, “Hey. You need to do XYZ more.” ” I said, “Look. I’m working as hard as I can.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

In fact, this crisis was at the heart of Steve Blank ’s original impetus to develop customer development as an alternative set of milestones to use for startups.) Back in my IMVU days, I met with an investment banker who wanted to help us understand the M&A landscape. I also frequently see the reverse.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. — Right out of college, Dave chased a dream of being rich, becoming an investment banker. We pivoted the company toward what the market wanted, and what our users and customer wanted, but away from my initial vision and passion.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

He teaches at the NYU School of Engineering , and for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps , and co-author with Giff Constable of Talking to Humans: Success Starts With Understanding Your Customers. Out of college, he briefly worked as an investment banker in New York, but before long heard the siren song from Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Arthur Rock, an investment banker at Hayden Stone in New York (who helped broker the financing of Fairchild) moved out to San Francisco in 1961 and partnered with Tommy Davis.

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