Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley.

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Restful Silicon Valley San Jose Puerto Rico 249

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. So much for timing.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Not only the theorists but constituents for customer development, or with Main Street businesses and local constituents. We need to know what sweet spots for customer development work best with zoom and that don’t work best with zoom. And we had people doing that, both in Africa and in San Jose.

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Lean Community San Jose Africa 427

Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

Nevertheless, Southwest charges $5 for in-flight Internet access, which starts to feel like nickel-and-diming. Surely for Internet access they take PayPal or Google Wallet, which would solve this problem in about 30 seconds? On a customer satisfaction scale of 1–10, this experience scored a zero.

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