Category Archives: Technology

New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Steve Blank

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We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. The rules for … Continue reading →

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Honor and Recognition in Event of Success

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Blank

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Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.”Attributed to Ernest ShackletonIn 1912 Ernest Shackleton placed this ad to recruit a crew for the ship … Continue reading →

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A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Steve Blank

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If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple … Continue reading →

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College and Business Will Never Be the Same

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Steve Blank

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school Attributed to Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and B.F. Skinner There are 4633 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States. This weekend I had dinner last … Continue reading →

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Startup America – Dead on Arrival

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Steve Blank

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For its first few decades Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semiconductor manufacturers in the early 1980’s that they formed Silicon Valley’s first lobbying … Continue reading →

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Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Steve Blank

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The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code written to find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain … Continue reading →

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Now Hear This

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Steve Blank

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Much like my career, in the last two years this blog has traveled a serendipitous path. I orignally wrote it with four goals in mind…read full post. Download MP3

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Too Young to Know It Can’t be Done

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Steve Blank

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. BuckAsk people what makes entrepreneurs successful and you’ll hear a familiar list of adjectives; agile, tenacious, … Continue reading →

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