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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. Poulsen Wireless was later bought by Federal Telegraph of San Francisco. 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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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

Steve Blank

Everyone in San Francisco? Potential customers such as gamers who like to play specific types of games? Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing. Select the messenger you want to carry your message. Step 1: Who’s the Audience(s)? An audience means – who specifically you want your messages to reach.

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Recovery That weekend I left the Valley and drove along the coast from San Francisco to Monterey. 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. The bill had come due.

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How to Manage Supply Chain Planning Like a Pro

YoungUpstarts

Transportation partners play an enormous role in the supply chain as they bring products into distribution centers and sometimes directly to customers. Develop Relationships with Supply Chain Partners. Develop relationships with each of your supply chain partners and make communication a top priority.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. Many other people over paid for Chemdex, VerticalNet, Pets.com, etc. Time will tell.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

On Customer Development in a growing company, Wyatt offered the following advice: Wyatt: We''ve employed a number of systems in the organization that keep all of us close to the customer. There are 5-10 customers in our office (or remote) per week for developers, product owners and marketers to speak to and validate learning.

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Customer Development: Past, Present, Future

Steve Blank

They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. I lived it as a developer for Palm handhelds and intricately involved with both companies at the business level. A link to it at Amazon: [link] Reply Labnotes » Customer Development: Past, Present, Future , on November 24, 2009 at 4:07 pm Said: [.]