Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. His real job – the action – was to get the software moved onto our machine.
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
Most of the ability to create a radio industry in the 1920s was due to the accident of ionospheric radio propagation. Intercontinental radio was CW only (morse code) and all used spark gaps, alternators and arc converters through out the 1920s. Farnsworth was also bullied to an early death by Sarnoff and RCA. Now In Print!
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 11, 2010
I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. This post serves as a hyperlinked table of contents, so either bookmark this page or subscribe by email or RSS to get notified when new articles get posted. If your marketing strategy is to run A/B tests and build RSS subscribers, you've already lost.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? I dont think so.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So if you are outside the U.S.
Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Are These Your Slides?
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