Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? I remember this lesson well. What brings you to LA?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. His message was that existing companies are great at sustaining technologies and products but were ignoring the threat of disruption. Christensen explained it wasn’t that existing companies didn’t see the new technologies/ products/ markets. Eye Opening.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). Patrick is completely correct here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In 1987 when I started my first company (Feld Technologies), I wrote a business plan for a course at MIT that I was in called 15.375: New Enterprises. By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. The textbook for the course was Jeffry A.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

So essentially, the government invests in both (research), and (development).” ” Two of the entrepreneurial programs, which I managed is called the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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