Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

PM’s are underrated in Silicon Valley these days. Without strong PMs you build crappy products that nobody needs or that real people can’t use. For the wrong reasons. PMs are a vital part of a tech startup. Engineering is critical but it is not everything.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. At the same time Berkeley was also developing Cold War weapons systems. See the presentation here.).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. That’s in stark contrast to the traditional Product Development Model where it’s expected a customer is already there and waiting and it’s simply a matter of [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

And, most importantly, the Lean Startup idea is starting to take root in industries and contexts very different from it’s Silicon Valley roots. And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design.

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 30, 2012

25% during product development. 60% are for revenue generating companies with a sellable product. Funding can be a red herring. The vast majority of VC rounds go to revenue generating companies. When you look at the stats, 5% of rounds happen on an idea.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

The surprising secret of happier, more productive organizations: conflict – crowdspring.co/1qscUpx. It’s getting harder to tell what’s a real Silicon Valley startup and what’s a parody – crowdspring.co/1k05eDQ. The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley – crowdspring.co/1qjKWZN.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Founded by three Silicon Valley veterans - Tim Brady, Alan Louie, and Geoff Ralston - Imagine K12 will support early stage ed-tech startups through a funding and mentorship program. Working with Students, Teachers, Schools for Product Development.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The mantra of “ first mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their market, became the conventional wisdom of investors in Silicon Valley.“ First Movers” didn’t understand customer problems or the product features that solved those problems (what we now call product-market fit).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. They are very interesting.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A few of the many quotations that struck me: “Most startups fail due not to the failure of product development but due to the lack of customers”. Learning and discovering who a company’s initial customers will be and what market they are in, requires a process separate and distinct from product development”.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. I have been working on getting a startup to revenue for a while, and while this is my 4th iteration and I have not yet succeeded, I’ve been learning new things every time. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. The industries include healthcare, independent software developers, financial services, aerospace and defense, wireless and mobile applications and gaming. This is a combination of applied research and new product development.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply Play Wack-a-Mole – gently, now – With Your ‘Bad’ Customers | CityOf.com – More Local… FASTER. , on July 9, 2010 at 12:50 pm Said: [.] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 17, 2016

Some early stage investors, especially outside of the Silicon Valley, still won’t do any deal that is on a convertible note or convertible security, so if you’re not based in the Silicon Valley, this is something to consider. This should be basically free. But when you have more resources later, you will pay for it.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

She is a Silicon Valley veteran – having been the Senior Director of Engineering at Yodlee, then holding several CTO, Chief Architect, and other engineering leadership roles at a few startups before landing at Shippo in 2016. Above all, the purpose of product development is to create value for customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. Because you can say anything you want, but if, and you can build the best product you want, you could spend year building like the most perfect product with all the features and no bugs or whatever it is.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Market Risk vs. Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. Order Here. Now In Print!

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SVPG

AUGUST 26, 2022

appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group. This isn’t a new phenomenon, but it does seem to come and go in waves over the years. I understand the appeal, especially in organizations struggling with scale. One consequence of my efforts to. The post An SVPG Process?

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Look for some “ skunk works &# project where the product developers are actively seeking alternatives to their own engineering organization. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. These companies will look at innovative startups to help them gain market share from the incumbent. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again in what would become Silicon Valley. Just as Durant had multiple interests, Musk is not only Tesla’s CEO and Product Architect, overseeing all product development, engineering, and design. Days of Futures Past for Tesla.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

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SVPG

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Makers design and build the products we love, so most people understand the critical contribution. The post Process People appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group. Makers definitely include your designers and your engineers, and supporting roles like user research and data analysts. View Article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. And do your customer development.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Growth hacking and growth teams are so commonplace today, at least inside Silicon Valley, that it’s easy to forget that “growth” (as we know it now) is a relatively new phenomenon. The evolution of the growth function changed this dynamic, mashing together product dev and marketing as integrated functions.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

THE SPEAKERS MELANIE DISALVO Melanie DiSalvo began her fashion career in product development after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Textile Development and Marketing program. Expert industry speakers will include Dr. Carmen Hijosa of Pinatex, Amanda Parkes of NYC Fashion Tech, and me, Melanie DiSalvo.

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View from Seed

JULY 26, 2022

AD: I spent the early part of my career doing investment banking in Silicon Valley and healthcare consulting in NY. AD: I once heard someone say, “if you want the best personal development seminar on the planet, start a business” and that is one of the best summaries of what I find so intriguing and fulfilling about being a founder.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Transcript of Bringing Marketing and Product Development Together written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She is a Silicon Valley based strategic product and marketing executive, happens to be the Chief Product Officer at a project management tool called Obo. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. The Use of a Product Development Model to Measure Sales Using the product development diagram for startup sales activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

This is where we really erred in our approach, engineering and product management all report up to the CTO, and the company fundamentally underinvested in product management as a functional area. and by framing it as a binary choice I am perpetuating the problem in many ways. We should have been able to do both.

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

” "The company cares about what the leader cares about" - I attribute this to Bill Campbell, the product legend known as the Coach of Silicon Valley, and I argue this applies not just to the CEO, but also to the product managers (the team cares about what the product manager cares about).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. 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. This post describes such a model.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. So What is Customer Development?

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