Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I think it’s something our business people realize, as they are actively reaching out to the web development community and attending meetups and conferences in things they don’t have any knowledge of, but give them a taste of what our job is like every day. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Reply steveblank , on October 10, 2009 at 10:59 am Said: Sales material developed by marketers who have never left the building is more often that not completely useless. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Didn’t you want him to be more than 10% productive when working for you? To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. But to get video to fit and playback on the computers of the era, they needed to compress it.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned No one will tell you to work fewer hours You need to be responsible for your own health and happiness Burnout sneaks up on you Burnout is self-induced. You created it and own it. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. The Adventure of a Lifetime. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. Now In Print!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Feedback driven product development versus visionary (Steve Jobs) driven development. In this clip we discuss why Nanea is a proponent of a lean startup and data driven development methodology. She combines gathering: Quantitative data – data hook implementation, click tracking, A/B testing. Leadership Startup Lessons'

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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. It’s what my textbook on Customer Development describes. I was an idiot. Berkeley and at Stanford.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. I think they’re missing something. It wasn’t always so.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. Today RSS is the enabling technology – the infrastructure, the delivery system. Simply put, there is no market for RSS.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. The answer depends on your answer to two questions: which step in the Customer Development process are you on? Customer Development and Selling Strategy If you’ve just started your company you are in customer discovery.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa). cheap accessible digital hardware].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. They have developers or friends help code their software without having legal agreements in place. Not worth it. Make sure you own your IP.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Market Risk vs. Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. In these markets it’s all about invention risk.

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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. Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner. Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

So I started to read all I could find on the development of microwaves. A Stanford professor was at Harvard in World War II because the head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development thought Terman was the best radio engineer in the country. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley? Just a quick history refresher.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I began to gain an appreciation of how world-class venture capitalists develop pattern recognition for these common types of problems. “Oh I was between my 7th and 8th and final startup; licking my wounds from Rocket Science, the company I had cratered as my first and last attempt as a startup CEO. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

Social Network 297

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The products you develop in the bowling alley are there to carry your technology and get it adopted. What is it that’s unique about the market I’m in? We’ll talk about the implications of what vertical market you’re entering in the next few posts. That client is inherently in a vertical, so stage gate the vertical for seats and dollars.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Reply steveblank , on March 28, 2009 at 7:27 am Said: Denis, Over time the blogs tagged under the “customer development&# category will build up a narrative of illustrative stories of how customer development evolved in practice. Very much in addition to the text. Steve Blank has started a blog.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Placing your social and RSS numbers in prominent places. Professionalisms branding digital marketing marketing Online marketing social persuasion web development' A few positive customer testimonials placed close to the Buy button often work well. Kurt Smith is a digital marketing consultant and he is writing for NextDayLenses.com.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Facts are the rock on which you build your strategy and tactics In a startup second-hand facts are almost as useless as opinions. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. I hate business plan competitions. Your investors may require something quite different.) To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. What made them exceptional?

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

And other startups are in a New Market — creating a market from scratch (like Apple with the iPhone, or iPod/iTunes.) (“Market Type&# radically changes how you sell and market at each step in Customer Development. It’s one of the subtle distinctions that at times gets lost in the process. To Order Outside of the U.S.

Silicon Valley 146

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

It is a skill you need to either have or develop. I’ve built my company using the Customer Development Model from Day One. Not so much on the sinking venture, but seeing you gents in action, developing and selling blind to navigational course corrections. If not, don’t wait. Get started asking.

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our VP of Business Development had no problems getting meetings and fund raising was easy. Out of the Ashes A few of the key tenets of Customer Development , came from the ashes. era&# , but really interested in your take on these “free&# models through the prism of Customer Development.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 22, 2011

I can lecture you about how blogging success is about content and time rather than looks and plugins , but I still wrote my own plugin to manage exactly how the “retweet&# link behaves in the RSS feed. But neither should you stop striving, improving, learning, and developing “who you are.&# Stoke your motor.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. Hand this to a competant outsourced development shop and what you've got is a great start. He has spent a lot of time thinking about what users really want to do to solve information overload problems.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section. Google’s App Inventor is a good example of a DIY tool.

Small Business 104

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The Times Square Strategy discussion I had with Eric Ries , was still top of mind, so instead of my standard Customer Development lecture , I offered my thoughts on: the origin of Customer Development, where we are today, and where does Customer Development go, and how you can help get it there.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

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