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OCTOBER 19, 2009

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. He and his wife Gwen would found the Computer Museum, first in the lobby of DEC headquarters, then in Boston (and now as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.]

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APRIL 10, 2009

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.] Reply Ashu Sharma , on April 27, 2010 at 11:44 pm Said: Steve, Great post!

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JUNE 11, 2009

» Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] The rest is worth reading as well. steve Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. on June 29, 2009 at 3:56 pm Said: [.] carry on reading.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. After three of these slides, smart VC’s will recognize that by iterating on your assumptions you have dramatically reduced risk– on your nickel, not theirs. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Reply Lean Startup Customer Discovery & the Value of First Impressions , on January 25, 2010 at 6:12 am Said: [.] Reply Yuri Ammosov , on December 15, 2009 at 4:28 pm Said: Hmmm. Then WHAT it IS?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

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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 [.] tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] Reply Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? on September 28, 2009 at 11:56 am Said: [.] carry on reading.

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JULY 20, 2009

Crammed into Silicon Valley along with millions of people around the San Francisco Bay it’s hard to fathom that 15 air miles away was a stretch of California coast that was still rural. At the end of two days I realized, This was the first full weekend I had taken off since I had moved to California 3 years ago. How did I miss that?

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AUGUST 26, 2020

They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work. Jake Soberal : Yeah.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link].

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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MAY 28, 2009

be prepared to be the most lean business in the sector (which is only possible where economy of scale does not create huge entry barriers). If you can’t find a sustainable advantage this means that competition will likely drive the prices down and make your life miserable with below-substinence income.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

The quintessential California couple, they stood out in our crowd as the engineer (in his late 20′s, respected by his peers and the customer) had hair down to his shoulders, sharply contrasting with the military crewcuts of the customers and most of the other contractors.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

So much so, I took a Customer Development approach to my startup, which I wrote up as a Case Study for the Google Group Lean Startup Circle. Reply EventSession , on November 10, 2009 at 7:10 pm Said: Hi All (including Steve), I am much inspired by Steve’s and Eric Ries’s thoughts on entrepreneurship.

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APRIL 20, 2009

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be.

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MAY 15, 2009

Stay hungry, stay lean. I don’t want to be hungry and lean (nor do I want to be full and fat). It was an odd feeling at that time, we thought we have made it and fail to stay lean and hungry. Is it a given that the “lean, hungry&# culture can actually be maintained forever? Don’t let it happen to you.

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JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. Driving across the U.S. is an adventure everyone ought to do.

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JULY 16, 2009

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APRIL 9, 2009

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 [.] Reply How to close a term sheet quickly - Venture Hacks , on April 28, 2009 at 10:43 am Said: [.]

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MARCH 20, 2009

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APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks.

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JULY 2, 2009

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JUNE 25, 2009

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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. The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab.

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JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Fixing the Missing Pieces of Infrastructure.

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JULY 30, 2009

Reply 4 Anti-Lean Startup Archetypes at Market By Numbers , on August 4, 2009 at 11:30 am Said: [.] There’s certainly nothing wrong with gathering feedback any time you can, and travel expenses are rough right now so you make do. Steve Blank’s market type discussions to learn when a big megaphone might be the right [.]

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MAY 26, 2009

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JULY 27, 2009

We four instructors would grumble and complain to one another about our lack of leadership. Our small training department had been without a manager for months and finding a replacement didn’t seem to be high on the VP of Sales list. Then it hit me – no one else wanted to be manager – what was the worst that could happen?

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MAY 11, 2009

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. You want to apply Lean Startup methods at your company, but your boss is used to being the decision-maker and is resistant to the concept of testing ideas. On October 8 at 10a PT, join us for a webcast, Bringing Lean Startup to Established Companies.

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JULY 19, 2017

That’s because Joe brings a wealth of real-world experience and leadership to the role. By the middle of this year Hacking For Defense started to feel like it had the same momentum as when my Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford got adopted by the National Science Foundation and became the Innovation Corps (I-Corps). In 2012, Rep.

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MARCH 19, 2009

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MARCH 25, 2009

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