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

Steve Blank

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?

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

—————- 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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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

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,

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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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Emerging Manager Mode: The VC’s version of “Do things that don’t scale”

VC Cafe

Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode. In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. The focus on entertainment tech meant that we always cared about content creation, distribution and monetisation.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Back in the 1960’s and 70’s no sane MBA’s would work for a Silicon Valley startup.) Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Rethinking The Way Companies Collaborate And Execute Business Processes

YoungUpstarts

Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Based in Silicon Valley, Progressly helps companies document, collaborate and analyze business processes — all in one central place. Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies.