Articles About customer development
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November 25, 2012Steve Blank: Here’s How Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes
Listening to my the family talk about dividing up the cooking chores for this Thanksgiving dinner, including who would peel the potatoes, reminded me that most careers start by peeling potatoes...
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April 21, 2012Steve Blank: How to Build a Billion Dollar Startup
The quickest way to create a billion dollar company is to take basic human social needs and figure out how to mediate them on-line...
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April 07, 2012Blinded by the Light: The Entrepreneur’s Epiphany
It can be challenging for an entrepreneur to slow down, disengage from the relentless pace and smell the roses...
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December 16, 2011The Key to Entrepreneurial Success: the Right Startup Team
During the last 12 months we’ve taught 42 entrepreneurial teams with 147 students at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and the National Science Foundation ...
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December 03, 2011The Secret to Avoiding Tragic Failure as an Entrepreneur
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life ...
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November 26, 2011
Scientists Unleashed at National Science Foundation Innovation Corps
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not ...
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October 18, 2011
How the iPhone Got Tail Fins
It was the most advanced consumer product of the century ...
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September 03, 2011
Here’s Why Startups and Entrepreneurs Get No Love from Governments
I’ve spent the last week reviewing several countries’ ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship. Here's my conclusions ...
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August 17, 2011
Entrepreneurs Must Have Back Up Plans – with Steve Blank
My formal definition of a startup is a temporary organization in search of a scalable and repeatable business model ...
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July 28, 2011
Innovation Corps Makes Startup History for Future Entrepreneurs
This is a big deal. Not just for scientists and engineers, not just for every science university in the U.S., but in the way we think about bringing discoveries ripe for innovation out of the university lab ...
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July 19, 2011
2 Awesome VC Stories from Startup Guru Steve Blank
While on vacation I had a phone interview with Kevin Ohannessian of Fast Company who wanted a few “funding stories.” Here are two of them ...
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June 22, 2011
The Future of Technology – with Startup Guru Steve Blank
My friend Ben Horowitz and I debate the tech bubble ...
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June 17, 2011The 5 Participants in a Market Bubble – with Steve Blank
Silicon Valley goliaths Ben Horowitz and Steve Blank debate whether stock and company valuations are in a bubble ...
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June 12, 2011Board Meetings for the New Era – with Steve Blank
Productivity and process are changing. How should new companies address the board meeting?
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June 01, 2011The Startup Genome Project – with Customer Development Guru Steve Blank
Get the full Startup Genome Report here ...
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