Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets. Great quote.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards. So we not only sent everyone through packaging school, we also brought the packaging design in-house.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. And the rest is history.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw. Would you sell an ebook version on this site for all the rest of us trying to incorporate your model in our startups? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Very much in addition to the text.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

You can imagine the rest of the conversation; my sounding reluctant to let our own tests outside our building, the magazines begging us to let them have them, and finally a deal gets struck where we let the benchmarks out to the test labs of these magazines under their own name “The Potrero Benchmark Suite” without attribution to us.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The formula for exits was a variation of the formula they used in the Internet bubble, morphing into: brand, hype and sell the company. So what’s left?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback. Reply Mark Essel , on November 25, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: Diggin’ the presentation so far, looking forward to catching the rest of this later in the day. Big thanks for the continued sharing, and certainly the link to Lean Startups.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

They both run on open AI's GPT model, and both are designed to help you get more done and to grow your business faster. So put a vertical line down the center and on the top of the left hand column, put words to lose on top of the right hand column, put words to use. She opens the window and she leans out.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. Chapter 5: Designing Your Brand Identity. Put another way: a designer’s job isn’t to design a brand. Designers design the brand identity (explained in Chapter 5 ). Chapter 2: Creating Your Brand Strategy. style guide.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Since it was the military and I was a lowly airman (I was outranked by the rest of the entire air force), the answer I got was, “Don’t you know there’s a war on? It gave me a sense of purpose for the rest of the war. I hope all is well with you and the rest of the Blank clan. Shut up and keep fixing that equipment.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Soviet Air Defense – PVO Strany The B-52s had to get through a massive Soviet air defense system that had been built and evolved over two decades and was designed to shoot down manned bombers. All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Design your graphics, pre-show promotion, literature and show directory advertising around your focused message and theme. Look for locations near entrances, food concessions, rest rooms, seminar rooms, or close to major exhibitors. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. IBM doesn’t have to shout to get noticed, but you do.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

Our president picked up on the momentum and asked me what I needed from the rest of the exec team to fix this debacle. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It was so out of character, people were shocked. Some stammered out, “can you say that again?&# Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Martin , on October 5, 2009 at 9:11 am Said: I am curious to hear the rest of what Steve will have to say about Durant and Sloan. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Gary Hoover Reply Michael F. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Designing the Perfect Building Once the commitment to fix everything wrong was in place, we were off and running on the design phase. We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. The exec staff started meeting about the design of the new building. Stay hungry, stay lean.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. The rest is just fluff. Reply A View Up the Skirt of “Lean Startup,&# JumpPost « Jordan Cooper's Blog , on December 21, 2009 at 12:29 pm Said: [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The rest of the progress report sounded just like this. So much so, I took a Customer Development approach to my startup, which I wrote up as a Case Study for the Google Group Lean Startup Circle. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Me: How are we doing on the Nastran port? Me: How about Dyna 3D ? Blog at WordPress.com.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. You actually have to design systems from the beginning so that the system itself has safety in every part and every check of every single product that you build. RH: Yeah, totally agree.

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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. “We Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. We need your decision now because we are about to spend $50,000 on new collateral.”

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web Design. Design Patterns. UI Design. Responsive Design , Strategy. Designing websites for smartphones is easy compared to retrofitting those already in place. Prior to the iPhone’s introduction in mid-2007, designers could rely on windows at least 700 pixels wide (if they ignored accessibility).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

A great vacation with my wife wasn’t going to make up for being AWOL from home the rest of the year. Some of these problems began with the 19th century Romanticist notion of artists as mad geniuses, in elevated isolation from the rest of us. People need to be left alone sometimes because they need other people.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It’s been thirty years, but every once an awhile I still wonder what happened to the rest of their lives. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.” Therefore I’m not sure what to make of the rest of their conclusions. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. That may be the case for the 549 founders they interviewed, but only 4.5%

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

And the rest of the advice on this blog is irrelevant. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. And even if you did it’s the wrong focus, and time spent for a startup 2. If winning $5-10K is your goal, you’re not a scalable startup, just a small business. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

The ESL equipment were racks of the latest semiconductors designed into a system so complicated that the mean-time-between-failure was measured in days. Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. I was in between the two thinking of this movie scene. (At It shunned publicity.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

A+ in one or two courses every semester and mediocre in the rest. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. This was basically my m.o. in school. Reply steveblank , on April 7, 2009 at 10:16 am Said: Michael, Thanks for the Kauffman foundation link. They do great stuff. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

Our receptionists’ desk was built on the wing of a WWII P-51 fighter plane, and the rest of the office décor matched. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. All that is, except for our lobby, as our offices were on the 4 th floor. When you got off the elevator, you faced a non descript corporate-looking set of walls. .

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. No one was confused after that. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I Fadell brings everyone together — from user-experience people to management people to algorithms people — so that there are people there who can speak to every aspect of their product from design to marketing to user experience. First, what is the “soft edge”?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Now we could give customers lower price boards without Engineering spending 12 months to design new ones.) However, the mistake would be to confuse the interest in consumer facing companies with mass interest in the rest of corporate America. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. You’re Going to Do What?!

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

amateur ad design. These techniques, listed below, are not a result of isolated incidents but design principles based on psychology and usability. Plain looking but bold design. Note: This claim was later disproven and it turns out Jobs’ childhood home was actually designed by another builder influenced by Eichler’s style).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Family Rules My wife and I agreed to a few rules upfront and made up the rest as went along. The trips gave them a sense that the rest of the country and the world was not Silicon Valley and that their lives were not the norm. Eric Ries’s astute observations about engineering and Lean Startups make the same point.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Alcides Fonseca.

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