Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I offered what I just learned from spending a day at the ranch with the R&D group of a $100 billion corporation along with the insights my Startup Owners Manual co-author Bob Dorf who has several Fortune 100 clients. Most of these new businesses need to be created outside of the existing business units. Full disclosure.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

This one phrase became the theoretical underpinning of the out-of-control spending of startups during the dot-com bubble. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. First to develop or patent an idea. Fast Followers – a better idea.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation. Understanding the future of entrepreneurship may depend on understanding the contribution each of them made in the past. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley? Just a quick history refresher. Each allied bombing mission lost 2-20% of their planes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

70,000 State Department employees (46,000 Foreign Service Nationals, 14,000 Foreign Service Employees and 11,000 in the Civil Service) carry out the President’s foreign policy and help build a freer, more prosperous, and secure world. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

70,000 State Department employees (46,000 Foreign Service Nationals, 14,000 Foreign Service Employees and 11,000 in the Civil Service) carry out the President’s foreign policy and help build a freer, more prosperous, and secure world. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. But I don’t think so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. Its actually part of a lean startup story.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Answer: The most cost effective wavelength is 800-900nm ~ $20/watt. Final question: Is the improved absorption efficiency worth the extra cost? Veritas , building a low cost wind turbine for cities.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

And if others don’t get your startup idea, it won’t matter how hard your team works to try to achieve it. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. But coming to Silicon Valley is not nirvana.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

And if others don’t get your startup idea, it won’t matter how hard your team works to try to achieve it. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. But coming to Silicon Valley is not nirvana.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. For the broader use case of helping startups execute their legal paperwork, Clerky is a focused solution.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. They will now be leveraging the 1M/1M-Persistent channel to go to market in the United States. A second is collaboration.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company. It’s been thirty years, but every once an awhile I still wonder what happened to the rest of their lives.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. This means more jobs, new industries and a permanent edge for innovation in the United States. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Technology.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

It will be very clearly stated that this feature will be available to everybody for a trial period, but they will have to pay to continue using it. The basic version of this feature will be available to everybody, but an upgraded version will cost money. Hire me to help you learn how to get better information from your customers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The motivation in the mid 1950’s for these new startups was a crisis – we were in the midst of the cold war and the United States military and intelligence agencies were rearming as fast as they could. military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The pundits say the American dream is dead and this next decade will see the further decline and fall of the West and in particular of the United States. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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