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by sblank 14y ago
I'm trying to stop the needless and constant bad advice of "lets churn through every possible feature without understanding the entire business model." Doing so is a crutch. Tell me you understand your entire business model and that you th
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by sblank 14y ago
correct
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by sblank 14y ago
For clarity. I was in Mensa ~1969-1982. In high school I was a terrible student and therefore I didn’t think I was that smart. My sister, much older and much wiser, thought otherwise and had me take a Mensa test when I was a junior. The num
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by sblank 14y ago
Hmm. Selection bias perhaps? How many medical devices, nano materials, chemical sensors and life science, etc. startups applied to the last Y-Combinator cohort? The hundreds of hard science teams I see every year don't send you application
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by sblank 15y ago
Not sure if I'm smart enough to figure out how to make teams work virtually for 1,000's of thousands of students at a time. (Can't figure out how to grade progress on this scale.) I'm leaning to have the class teach individual entrepreneurs
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by sblank 15y ago
I'd take Chuck Eesley's class first. The Lean LaunchPad class is a methodology driven version of the 2012 update to the Four Steps to the Epiphany.
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Why Board Meetings Suck(steveblank.com)
3 points by sblank 15y ago|0 comments
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by sblank 16y ago
"Accepting payment..." "If you're being paid to be part of the solution then be part of the solution." Funny. That's why most consultants tell the clients what they want to hear. If I took money for this I'd have lie as well.
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by sblank 16y ago
the original talk on entrepreneurs as artists can be found at ~18:40 here: http://gigaom.com/2011/03/27/steveblank/
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by sblank 16y ago
thx. Stackoverflow added.
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by sblank 16y ago
google apps added. Github, Heroku, Balsmiq and Dropbox are already on the list.
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by sblank 16y ago
added Quora to the list. anything else missing?
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by sblank 16y ago
Funny, the article and these comments seem to miss the point. Credentials for what? If the job requires execution of a known process – automotive repair or neurosurgery I’d want to make sure I’d hire someone who went to the school that had
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by sblank 16y ago
A few thoughts here about getting an MBA: http://steveblank.com/2010/05/10/entrepreneurial-finishing-s... "Or do I work for a $big_company?" You may have already answered your question. A startup is not a job choice.
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by sblank 16y ago
Actually the meme that the "average entrepreneur is over 40" comes from a Kauffman Foundation report that is a great starting point for a discussion. However, it needs to be read very carefully. The founders referenced in the study are not
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by sblank 16y ago
Latest version is here: http://steveblank.com/books-for-startups/ Always looking for new suggestions/additions.
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by sblank 16y ago
at least half is. that's why the blog updates it with new thinking.
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by sblank 16y ago
Pilots lives saved ~7,100 according to Martin-Baker the main U.S. seat manufacturer. Technicians killed ~20 My guess based on four years in the Air Force.
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by sblank 16y ago
Thomas is going to get the cheapest and quickest entrepreneurial education available. Continual customer contact, fail fast, fail cheap, iterate. In two sentences he encapsulates most of the Customer Development philosophy: "1. now had so
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by sblank 16y ago
Entrepreneurs need to keep their eyes on the prize. That was the prize.
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by sblank 17y ago
When I got my game company funded by VC's in 1993 it was an exception. Sounds like its still true today. The rationale was that VC's don't fund "hits-based" businesses. The feeling was that the game business had additional risk than just a
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by sblank 17y ago
GPUs (i.e. Nvidia and AMD/ATI) are the linear descendants of these supercomputers. Today's standard GPU's have vector processing units with fixed pipelines optimized for graphics operations. Glen Miranker and Jon Rubenstein of Ardent made t
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by sblank 17y ago
Walsh worked on the Xerox PARC Bravo word processor with Charles Simonyi and Ben Wegbreit. Followed Wegbreit to Convergent, Ardent and E.piphany. Brilliant architect and coder.
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by sblank 17y ago
1. Agree with your comments. The text was never intended for a general audience. 2. The "book" is actually my class notes from the Customer Development class I teach at Haas. 3. Students started asking for hard copies of the notes. I sat
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by sblank 17y ago
Jeffrey Ventrella and Brian Dodd expanded on these ideas in 1996 with one of the early PC games based on genetic algorithms (at Rocket Science Games.) http://www.ventrella.com/Darwin/darwin.html Ventrella's main page is worth a look http
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by sblank 17y ago
thx. Not wisdom, just old.
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by sblank 17y ago
thanks. always nice to hear. steve
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by sblank 17y ago
You couldn't get white onions, because of the war.
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by sblank 17y ago
Reading list for the Secret History series is here: http://steveblank.com/secret-history/
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by sblank 17y ago
That's the point I was trying to make in the post. But you said it much clearer than I did. steve

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