Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Reply Week 2 – Customer Discovery & Listening « Iain’s Chips & Tech , on November 6, 2009 at 9:44 am Said: [.] Knowing this venture firms have come up with a canonical checklist of what they would like to see.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. So perhaps a more accurate description was that the company was a “restart.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2024

12:10] With your use of technology, tasks that once took hours can be completed much faster. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I was actually on a sales trip in California and my business partner called me back. Tech, sales, enablement, tech, I call us a communications organization.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) This mantra of talking to customers and iterating the product is the basis of the Lean Startup Methodology that Eric Ries has been evangelizing and I’ve been teaching at U.C. I was an idiot.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Take that opportunity to ask for online reviews and referrals. . His practice, Complete Family Vision Care Optometry, is in San Diego, California. Dr. Aaron Neufeld, OD is an Owner/Optometrist at Los Altos Optometric Group in Los Altos, California. Action Steps: Review hiring processes and office processes for efficiency.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. There’s usually also a little je ne sais quoi?—?a

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” For our tech project (and likely others in our field) the value is in accurately predicting platforms and information channels in the next 6months-1 year. Are These Your Slides?

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. I rarely see the tech team do this.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. link] [link] I guess you could call it the “Continuous Wave Radio&# technology period.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

As Peter began to speak extemporaneously our mouths slowly fell open as he described the video game market, its size, its demographics, the state of the technology, and the state of games. You’re in a “ hits-based &# entertainment business like movies or music rather than a product business like traditional high-tech. -

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. 29 Things I, as a designer, wish more tech startups knew – [link]. Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Lesson learned, review how each action [.] Reply A View Up the Skirt of “Lean Startup,&# JumpPost « Jordan Cooper's Blog , on December 21, 2009 at 12:29 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Their national technical means of verification made the world a safer place and hastened the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War.) His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.) The bill had come due. 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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

This year, with the kids grown, their choice was to fly up from Southern California and spend the holidays at our ranch. So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. California, where even the rabbits are bigger than life!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Once he was on board, I sat down with him on a weekly basis to review our progress with our list of software vendors. Reply Daily Review #21 | The Queue Blog , on November 9, 2009 at 8:06 pm Said: [.] But, they need to fold this tech into their SDLC, which is no small commitment. Or in case of love for that matter.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The new VP of Sales reviews the sales strategy and tactics that did not work and comes up with a new sales plan.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Inside the covers of these publications our customers had said that it was the product reviews that most influenced their buying decisions.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

We’ll review some new language and concepts in this process, but once you’re done, you may never need to think about this stuff again. . Also, creating a quick lean financial forecast will help ensure your business idea is viable and financially sound. Utah is often cited as having excellent online applications and forms.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. And our Director of Technical Marketing was superb at understanding customer needs and communicating them to engineering. It will cost you your job.” That kind of accountable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” I had thrown myself into a startup because work was an exciting technical challenge with a fixed set of end points and rewards. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. Bring in some outside professionals to review our progress? Was my response to stop development of the games?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

In my last post I described my approach to one of the three classes I teach at Stanford in the engineering school: Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship. A partner allows me the flexibility to miss a session or two (my job as a California Coastal Commissioner meets three days every month up and down the coast of California.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

What reviews did they trust? They said the product reviews in these publications were by far the biggest influence on which card to buy. (This made our PR problem manageable and focused. Now we knew what was a make-or-break publication and review and what we could pass on if we didn’t have the time or resources.)

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. A subscription box business plan will include the following components: Executive summary.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A four-time tech entrepreneur, his most recent company Immersion Neuroscience is a software platform that allows anyone to measure what the brain loves in real-time to improve outcomes in entertainment, education and training, advertising, and live events. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And the odds in your favor are even higher, as most of your peers wouldn’t even get into the game due to some unspoken belief that in a meritocracy, good things will come to those who wait. OK, done.) “Steve, I would really appreciate it if you could review my business plan and forward it to Mike Maples at Maples Investments.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! John Jantsch (10:28): And now a word from our sponsor technology is awesome. I mean, I talk about all kinds of technology on this show all the time. So it's so if I said, I mean, this is, you know, I said, you know, one point in my life, I thought about moving to California.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

He struck up his friendship with Jobs as the result of an introduction by a mutual friend who had met Jobs at their California high school. Due to automation and other technological advances, many jobs that existed just a decade ago are gone forever. Starting your business. The modern business landscape is changing rapidly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

We talked about how her background has made her well-suited for this kind of civic engagement, her relationship to the tech world, how she scaled the organization so quickly and much more. However, like so many of us, her 2020 plans were put on hold due to the pandemic. I'm from Stockton, California.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. What might these technologies do? It’s not uncharted territory?—?if

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. Dan: Well, you and I also just mentioned that we’re on the bleeding edge of technology.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology? They call it Lean Startup, but it’s also essentially conversion optimization. Lean Analytics (book, mainly for startup folk, but good primer for all). What’s the average of a 12-year old girl in California and a 50-year old man in Toronto? Edwards Deming.

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