Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. So our people in the field could correct any egregious design advice I gave to customers who mattered. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. Since I wasn’t an engineer, my contribution was around the team-building and fund raising. I was an idiot.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. 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. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. He showed me a little Korean hard drive portable music player, not much more than the Compaq reference design it was based off of. com Michael Robertson.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. 7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences – [link]. LinkedIn – [link].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The Adventure of a Lifetime. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) Computer hardware companies were faced with their customers asking for low-cost (relatively) desktop computers they had no experience in building.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

the “schedule fantasy factor,”) or his eleven rules of supercomputer design but also a real appreciation for how a technical visionary thinks. (I Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

For web designers, transitioning from working full-time for someone else to freelancing has some perks, like being your own boss and having a more flexible work schedule. Create a Lean Business Plan. You’ll also need business cards, stationery supplies, and software that’s specific to your design work. Calculate startup costs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

But then, because there might be entrenched competitors and your concept is radically new, you still need to invest in the customer development process to learn how to get design wins from companies who may be happy with their existing vendors. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. A good case study here is most iPhone apps.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner. Just a reflection on my family and hopes for our children.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

So they systematically designed electronic devices called “jammers&# to shut down each part of the German air defense system. And now am leading a startup of my own ( [link] ) where we’re students of you and Eric Ries’ lean startup principles. Chaff used 3/4′s of all the aluminum foil in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

We talked about some simple design rules and I remember him thanking me for coming, saying we were the only chip company who cared enough to call on him (little did he know.) Long gone from Zilog I saw the picture of the original Macintosh design team. I thought nothing about the meeting until years later.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0, If your market is missing, just add it as we go through this discussion. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Next, we needed to focus our messages away from technology and onto what the customers told us they needed – performance solutions for four key publishing applications.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I distinctly remember this is the first time I head the phrases “features and benefits.&# And since I saw our ads (but didn’t quite understand them,) I knew marketing was the group that designed them, somehow to get customers to think our products were better than Intel and Motorola’s. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I hate business plan competitions. I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web Design. Design Patterns. UI Design. Mobile Design’s Wake-Up Call Preparing Websites For The Unexpected. Responsive Design , Strategy. Designing websites for smartphones is easy compared to retrofitting those already in place. Designers made their upper left corner logos clickable because it was expected.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

1 year later we sat down and had an honest conversation with ourselves and realized that our One Thing, the thing we were most passionate about, that we could realistically be the best in the world at, and that was a huge untapped market opportunity was: Design. Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog. So, we pivoted from fabulis to Fab.?.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. I'm a lighting audio and video designer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback. Big thanks for the continued sharing, and certainly the link to Lean Startups. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. The video below was my presentation to the group. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. A few successful ones do all these things.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. But please don’t design a landing page yourself unless you are a designer. A well-designed page with good copy and targeted visitors should do 30-50%. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Like this post? 11 Roland on 10.15.10

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

Lean Analytics Book. Lean tends not to touch on these things, but they’re important for bigger, more established organizations who have found their product/market fit, and for intrapreneurs trying to convince more risk-averse stakeholders within their organization. Share your Lean Analytics story with us! Skip to footer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

I talk about this in my book and there is always a discussion at the Lean Startup Group at [link]. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. One of the key tenets of entrepreneurship is that you start your company with insufficient resources and knowledge. steve Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

The ESL equipment were racks of the latest semiconductors designed into a system so complicated that the mean-time-between-failure was measured in days. Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Subscribe to our RSS feed or get Traindom blog posts sent to you by email. Reply 6 Valuable Lifestyle Design Business Resources – The Life Design Project says: November 16, 2010 at 9:09 pm [.] Some lean toward more traditional businesses, instead of service offerings, but it’s worth a [.] Sign up now!

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Any of the following will provide a 100x return on your time investment compared to the titles I’ve mentioned above: Web Copy that Sells Always Be Testing Web Analytics An Hour a Day Web Design for ROI Moving Beyond Books One final thought.

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Steve Blank

MAY 1, 2009

If you’ve never seen Eric’s Lean Startup presentation, take a few minutes to at least watch his part. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Thanks to Dave McClure and Leonard Speiser for the opportunity to speak. The Customer Development talk can be seen here. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The slides are here. Blog at WordPress.com.

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