Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

In the early 1970’s, as some of you might remember, our country was in the middle of the Vietnam War—-and the Air Force was happy to have me. My job was to replace failed electronic warfare equipment in fighter planes as they returned from bombing missions over North Vietnam. We let our customers, our investors, and our employees down.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.) Campbell describes how he tried to instill in his troops the proper combat mentality. It may not be for you.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The Vietnam war was winding down. Even though the bombers we lost over North Vietnam were older versions, called B-52 D-models, many of the systems were the same. Sure the rest of the stories diverge though… can’t really imagine a Soviet counterpart to the Customer Development method. Reply Ben C. ,

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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.” Thailand: Bats, Moths and John Scoggins I was 19 in 1973 and in Thailand in the Air Force working on electronic warfare equipment on fighter planes, gunships and Wild Weasels, at the tail end of the Vietnam War.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi was the Training Center responsible for teaching 10’s of thousands of students a year how to repair radar, communications, and electronics. Some 2 million students have trained there since it opened in 1942. T hink of it as the ultimate vocational training school.

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blog.startupsquare.com

APRIL 13, 2010

2 Comments Tags: Customer Development , lean startup , pivot , Strategy. Having gone through 51 iterations of my mockups and gathered as much as feedback as I could with our primitive alpha, I feel confident about our basic customer problem hypothesis. This is “Customer Need&# in Eric’s list.

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