Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Yet in our case the product, the machine as delivered from engineering, was a blank, featureless computer with just an operating system and compilers. In most other companies a product-marketing department was responsible for the pricing, positioning and promotion of the product.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

The Carson, California company employs about 800 people in its 4 Southern California plants. Today, CedarLane is the largest family-owned and operated national frozen food brand in the U.S. Thanks to Stacy Roberts, SMR Leadership Solutions, LLC ! #8 Thanks to Robert Atallah, CedarLane Natural Foods ! #2

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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 [.] They built airplanes out of palm trees thinking if they did manna would come in airplanes again. tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. Here are the six likely ways that it will resolve, with these probabilities.” Yet something in the back of my mind bothered me.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

A creator and producer of social media, Michael’s responsibilities include leadership for the design team, concept creation and strategic consulting for highly engaging interactive experiences. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC., a communications tool for enterprises.

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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 [.]

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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. Reply bjorn , on March 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm Said: these stories really livened up the whole concept of “customer discovery&# for me. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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

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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. ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.” In California. 00:00:52] MARK: Sure.

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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. [.] 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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

. “Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator.

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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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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. At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2018

We have permanent representatives in five overseas technology hubs – Bangalore, Berlin, London, Seoul and Tel Aviv – and a permanent representative in California to work with companies interested in locating on the east coast to be near private sector or public sector clients. The absence of planning can yield flaws in future operations.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave. Radar engineers had observed if you cut a strip of aluminum foil to 1/2 the wavelength of a radar transmitter and throw it in front of the radars antenna, the radar signal would reflect perfectly.

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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

35:20) Inspiring acts of leadership and working hard. (35:50) My parents and my brother live in Southern California. He was talking about what he thought needed to happen in California and the fact that every state was going to need the kind of expertise was able to muster and probably wouldn't have access to that.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2017

Google recently declared that they desire to be THE operating system for your life. Buoys out in the Pacific Ocean send data to meteorologists regarding the size of the swells approaching Northern California. We think a version of Moore’s Law will soon apply to the speed of change. They see disruption as an opportunity, not a threat.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Office and Operations. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Leadership and Managing >. Sign-up for our Leadership and Managing Newsletter. Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

What actions will your operating team perform? This is important, since leadership roles will likely shift during the mission. He is also the author of “ 8 Weeks to SEALFIT “ and “ Unbeatable Mind “, he lives in Encinitas, California, with his wife, Sandy, and son, Devon. Communication.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2012

Executive, change management, and leadership coach at Stanford, Ed Batista has plenty of motivation and advice to share for the aspiring executive. A professor of management at Bryant University, Michael Roberto shares lessons on entrepreneurship, leadership, and of course, management through this blog. The Operations Room.

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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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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. I might have pursued a humanities education at a “ kumbaya college ” in California, but it’s only human to be at least a little bit selfish!

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2013

She is based in San Diego, California. Thinking Aloud leader leadership making a difference' What would the mentally above-average spectator glean from the stories of these captains of industry? Well, for starters, you shouldn’t start out in business as the nice guy. She shares a blog with her gang of gals, Word Baristas.

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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. It may not be for you.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] … The tactics you can use to create demand for a new product differ significantly when you operate in a new vs. existing market. to look at: when the plan (or process!)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

What that means is that If you're running a utility company, an airline, or let's say, even a railroad, the data that comes off of your equipment is invaluable to running your operation more efficiently. In fact, there's a term now, it's called, "OT," as in operations technology. So I launched Liguori Innovation to do that.

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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. PostEra, although we are organizing this, this is not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. It's solely used to make and test compounds against COVID." Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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Early Growth Financial Services

AUGUST 22, 2013

New VP of Sales to lead EGFS business development efforts in California San Francisco, CA Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsource accounting, finance, and tax support firm that provides on-demand services to early-stage companies, has just announced a new partner to their leadership team.

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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. Texas provides the red carpet for businesses to succeed while California puts up walls of red tape! What’s bringing them here?

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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

As we ran our tests, our engineering team found ways to improve our graphic boards performance for these applications and they made revisions to the boards firmware (its operating instructions.) These were applications we had never seen or ran before when the boards were designed.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

To put that benchmark in context, the latest estimates place the total number of businesses operating in the U.S. Upfront Ventures, a California-based VC firm, released its annual VC Survey Results in January. at around 27 million. Of that number, only 98 are currently considered unicorns. Surprisingly different, actually.

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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. It didn’t make my marketing skills any worse or better, but moved me to play forever on a different field.

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