Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

» Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. They built airplanes out of palm trees thinking if they did manna would come in airplanes again.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. Terman became a consultant to the company.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Hard skills such as data analytics are essential to being successful as a product manager, but equally-valued are soft skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership. Use frameworks in interviews to explain your qualifications and show your thought-processes. A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

It reminded me of “earlier days&# , when I was just starting out in running business operations for startups. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Reply bjorn , on March 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm Said: these stories really livened up the whole concept of “customer discovery&# for me. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

It wasn’t until I found the extremely obscure Lanchester Strategy for market share that I realized that these ratios had their basis in operations research and the Lanchester’s Laws.) Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. his next article on SuperMac, “Building the Killer Team – Mission, Intent, and Values&# , Steve further pounds the table on some principles of leadership that I think are [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. I still run the research group in Cambridge with 11 post-docs and grad students, where we work on machine learning, algorithms for drug design and molecular design. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. So they systematically designed electronic devices called “jammers&# to shut down each part of the German air defense system. Well, you couldn’t stand in front of the German radars and throw out tin foil, but you could if you had a fleet of airplanes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. It was all technical.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I don’t think you need operational experience to be a good VC but Mark Suster’s great new post illustrates the difference. [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Regarding the Atlas Developer Beta, John Gruber says that “Access to the beta program is $20″ — this is the new way and I like it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2018

The FCEDA has a wide variety of services designed to help businesses at every stage of development, from entrepreneurs to large established businesses. The absence of planning can yield flaws in future operations. That is an outcome in which one can take great pride. How do the FCEDA support entrepreneurs and business owners?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Frank Cowell is a speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. With over 20 years of sales, marketing, and leadership experience, Frank serves as Chief Revenue Boss at his latest venture, Revenue Ranch. Renowned for his expertise in accelerating agency growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. 35:20) Inspiring acts of leadership and working hard. (35:50) My parents and my brother live in Southern California.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

They communicate and pass on the DNA of how Silicon Valley operates and what level of performance is needed to compete on a global scale. Entrepreneurs (and angel investors) prioritize profitability over growth (this is OK for lifestyle startups, but not for scalable startups where capturing market share and thought leadership is vital).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

corporation, and by extension Sloan laid the foundation for America’s economic leadership in the 20th century. Sloan transferred responsibility down from corporate into each of the operating divisions (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac). One guy really did all of this.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

Every potential startup founder should think about their level of comfort operating in chaos and uncertainty. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It may not be for you. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] to look at: when the plan (or process!)

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

She holds a Master of Science degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from College of William & Mary. Prior to graduate school, Elizabeth was a strategy & operations consultant at Deloitte Consulting focusing on large healthcare clients.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

While the story about the Potereo benchmarks was about relentless execution, its glib description of designing the benchmarks could be read as we cheated. These were applications we had never seen or ran before when the boards were designed. Given we consciously worked hard not to, here’s what we were thinking.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Soviet Air Defense – PVO Strany The B-52s had to get through a massive Soviet air defense system that had been built and evolved over two decades and was designed to shoot down manned bombers. All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. What’s bringing them here?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Air Force’s long range bombing arm and the designated instrument of Armageddon. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the defense of the Soviet Motherland lay with the Soviet Air Defense Forces , called PVO Strany , a separate branch of the Soviet military formed in 1948 designed to detect U.S. How many did they have?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

But a series of Zen-like moments helped me move to a different level that changed how I operated. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It didn’t make my marketing skills any worse or better, but moved me to play forever on a different field. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Everyone was using a road map that was designed for a very different location, yet they are surprised when they end up lost. Engineering focuses on building the product; it designs the product, specifies the first release and hires a staff to build the product. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Companies specializing in components and systems that operated in the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum sprouted faster than fruit trees in the valley orchards. This is why there are FCC restrictions on the operation of spark gap radios today.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Business, Engineering, Computer Science, and Design were all represented. If you are interested in sponsoring the course, would love to hear from you as being part of a state institution in California provides its own special challenges. Now back to the question at hand. Asking about core values is a great question.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. They are now operating in nine States.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. But it's also a really interesting story, because Los Angeles was very early in rolling out drive-through testing for the City of Los Angeles, thanks to the leadership of Mayor Garcetti.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. “And, oh by the way, can you write the manuals for the operators while you’re at it.&# As I poured over the system schematics, I figured out how to put together a course to teach system theory, operations and maintenance.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Designing the Perfect Building Once the commitment to fix everything wrong was in place, we were off and running on the design phase. We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. The exec staff started meeting about the design of the new building. I was great at “office wars.”)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. It has to be little-endian or we won’t design your chip into our systems.” The reaction from the chip circuit design guys was, “OK, we could do that. What a great idea.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

We must get established EDI companies and new SAAS B2B platform operators to adopt our EDI API, with all of its amazing advantages. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It seems like a mountain, and yes, it is easy to almost substitute the process of lead gen and followup for closing. Blog at WordPress.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

A business plan is a document that outlines the financial and operational goals of your business. This section gives a brief overview of the industry sector your business will operate in. It shows who your leadership team is and what your staffing needs will be. Operating plan. An industry overview. Market analysis.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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