Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

People would go, “Oh, this one won the “best of MacUser Magazine benchmark&# award,&# and it would confirm that this was a safe purchasing choice. The most interesting thing we learned was that people felt more comfortable about a product when there were words of encouragement on the package.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston. They operate multiple investment funds focused on industry verticals like Real Estate, Consumer or CPG and on under-represented founders such as Women and People of Color.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives. Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.? Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. Thanks for sharing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I place them roughly in this order: Movies > Television > Books > Music > Magazines > Radio > Newspapers Each industry is watching the one in front of it sink into the quicksand. We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Thanks to Peyton Robinson, Foter Magazine ! #4- 25- There are more opportunities Photo Credit: Ed Cravo There is a renewed interest in profitability at this time but I wouldn't be fooled; intense competition fueled by venture capital will slowly creep back up. The most significant shift coming.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

One day I opened up a Scientific American magazine and read an article on a prank that had been pulled at CalTech the year before. My fondness for libraries and my reading habit carried through to the Air Force, and this technical school had an awesome technology library. And something about the story clicked for me.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

What magazines did they read? Three publications: In our market there were a myriad of magazines to read. Since this was the marketing department, I was going to be planning to spend some advertising and public relations dollars. It would be great to know how they got news and information about new products and new companies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Judging by the ink we had gotten, we were the hottest company in the game business, with stories in Fortune, Forbes, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and the cover of Wired magazine. Yet we hadn’t shipped a single product. While it felt wonderful at the time, this was a very bad idea.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Look, we’re on the cover of Wired magazine. Call a board meeting and say we may have a serious problem? I said, “That can’t be true! The press is saying we are the hottest super group around. They think we’re brilliant. Our VCs think we are visionary. Stop annoying our game designers and start working on selling and marketing the games.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Reply Cy Quick , on May 15, 2009 at 11:20 pm Said: How did Yann Wenner of Rolling Stone magazine get from cheap newsprint in SF to glossy in NYC with apparent mega-success? Non-geeks are slowed down whilst they struggle, and mistakes are made. “If it aint broke, don’t fix it.&# Are his costs in control? Is the story over?

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

A Day in the Life of A Founder For those of you who’ve never started a company, let me assure you that it never happens like the pleasant articles you read in business magazines or in case studies. I realized that what others heard as chaos, I just shut out.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

My own marketing department was convinced that the same industry magazines, which we had managed so well, would turn on us when they saw that the boards were physically identical. Yet I believed that this was the only alternative to slowly going out of business.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Intelligence As I leafed through the Cray sales material, a glossy magazine with the headline Cray Channels jumped out of the pile. Did Cray ever publish any more of these magazines?” I looked at the cover of the magazine again and almost fell off my chair. These magazines had been published for the last seven years.

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JULY 8, 2011

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