Naming Partner Silicon Valley Vertical 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2013
He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley and Who Will Win. ” It’s true.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. Are These Your Slides?
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Steve Blank
JULY 9, 2009
So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. I remember after a month or two of talking to 14-22 year old male gamers (our potential target market,) I realized that for the first time in my career I had no emotional connection to my customers or channel partners.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 21, 2010
The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. is inching higher.
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