Design Silicon Valley Vertical 
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
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. 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. How did Silicon Valley start?
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. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley?
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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode. Emerging managers tend to focus on ONE key value add category at a time: be it recruiting, sales, design or product support. They offer deep industry insights, connections, and hands-on support.
Steve Blank
MAY 28, 2009
Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. a new type of graphics architecture, or a new communications chip architecture) mean you may not know if the chip performs as well as you thought until you get first silicon. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
Steve Blank
MAY 26, 2009
Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). We hired a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Duke who had worked on helicopter design. Order Here. Now In Print!
Steve Blank
JUNE 29, 2009
My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.
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