Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ I see exhaustive execution of Lean Startup methodology often in the mobile/internet space. In fact, Eric Ries’s Lean Startup is mandatory reading for new hires prior to their first day. is amazing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Four-Phase Systems is hiring …”.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Four-Phase Systems is hiring …”.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley.

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