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JUNE 11, 2009

link] a few seconds ago from web [.] The Adventure of a Lifetime. Un très bon article qui revient sur les traits de caractères nécessaires pour rejoindre une startup, suivant son profil : fondateurs, tous premiers employés et employés qui arrivent lorsque la société est déjà bien lancée. [.] If I fail—at least I will own the failure.

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MAY 22, 2009

Ignore This Post The same caveat applies as in the first post; If you’re selling via the web, and trade shows seem hopelessly anachronistic, ignore this post. Why are you saying that “If you’re selling via the web and trade shows are something your grandfather told you about, ignore this post.&#. this may be a useful read.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

It surely lifted my spirits once again in my quest to seek funding from venture capitalists and to keep silencing my critics and proving them that i can achieve my milestones and goals in my very ambitious web application. BTW, I personally would _never_ “find&# a founder over the web. Thanks Steve!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Brendan McManus said: “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [link] #startup #advice [.] It was amazing to see the two founders, Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain, build a $100 million company from coffee cups and T-shirts.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version. Me –“That’s a great hypothesis, do customers tell you that they’d buy your version if it was cheaper or on the web? An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

We plan to have the many large dishes assembled for Moon Bounce, connected with live feeds on line, so EME, so the public will be able to be listened to from the web. Posts are going to be a mix of topics: entrepreneurship, secret history and conservation. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Filed under: Ardent , Family/Career , Technology « Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development Customer Development: Past, Present, Future » 17 Responses Mark Essel , on November 19, 2009 at 6:55 am Said: Haha, closure is well worth the effort when an entertaining tale can be shared!

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. cdixon.org - chris dixons blog. Follow @cdixon. cdixon.org contents. Twitter: @cdixon.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. But if you have a web based product the right answer may be 300-500. Thank you, Steve.

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MAY 21, 2009

If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, medical devices, etc.,) you know they’re expensive in time, dollars and resources. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

I talked about this in my new years resolution post from last year – Learning Should be your top New Years Resolution , which was also posted on The Next Web. Eating my own dogfood - I was obsessed with startups and venture capital… and I talked to a lot of people and picked up nuggets along the process.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures.

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JUNE 3, 2009

However, for the Web 2.0 Since my class was using the Customer Development text, I updated this diagram on to reflect in which markets the process was appropriate. For example, I told my students doing life sciences projects it would be 5-10 years before they needed to worry about customers.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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. steve The Difference Between Motion And Action | web pruned by monkeys , on November 12, 2009 at 11:05 pm Said: [.] Read the article: Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action [.]

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] reminds us that Customer Development is not just collecting web metrics and it’s not about focus groups. Reply Yuri Ammosov , on December 15, 2009 at 4:28 pm Said: Hmmm. Then WHAT it IS?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

And since there was no Venture Capital in the 1950′s/’60′s where was the money coming from? The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. What created this microwave startup culture in the 1950′s? Why was it occurring here?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. Reading this TechCrunch post made me remember the first time I saw someone confront a worldview they didn’t expect. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

I do not want to necessarily start a flame war about particular creations of “Web 2.0 I can’t remember if they were in the Wired article or on the web site, but every once in a while I still go over to ebay and see if I can find any for sale. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I really enjoy your posts – thank you for taking time to place your experiences up on the web. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Good for you!!! Thank you for the example of how we should approach adversity. Thank you again. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

My daughter, now 14, has her own company, doing web design and PHP and CSS and who knows what else. When they went to school, I went back to the office, starting an editorial services company in Shanghai. Now they’re even older. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 process in detail.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 process in detail.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The guidelines I had originally proposed to my students worked for enterprise software or Web 2.0 Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0, Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Funding for the companies spinning out of Stanford’s engineering department in the 1950’s benefited from the tight integration and web of relationships between Fred Terman, Stanford, the U.S. There was none. military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors. Jock Whitney writes himself a check to fund J.H. Whitney Co. million. (23

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Subscribe to comments with RSS. I was just looking at your web site. I do everything from raw-metal machine language to experimental languages to all the usual web front and back-end languages, and am one of those “started programming at 12 years old” types who had 5 years of college by the time I was 19.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

I think the Volt open source platform could be managed through a Web 2.0-like I wouldn’t see it as a free-tunning movement, but more as a Web-2.0 with the auto bailout. with the auto bailout. with the auto bailout. improvement system. It comes to my mind the “labs&# option in Gmail.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Amazon Web Services. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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