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.’ In fact, Eric Ries’s Lean Startup is mandatory reading for new hires prior to their first day. He leads Lean Startup workshops around the world, recently spending a lot of time in Singapore and Puerto Rico.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

(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 …”. Did we just hear this right? Someone is advertising electronics jobs on the radio? After our work in San Jose was done, the engineer who came out with me flew back home.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

(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 …”. Did we just hear this right? Someone is advertising electronics jobs on the radio? After our work in San Jose was done, the engineer who came out with me flew back home.

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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. Continuous innovation was here to stay and only founders – not hired execs – could play and win.

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