Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
Some of the most important business lessons are learned in the most unlikely ways. At Ardent I learned …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
As a board member, investor and consumer, I’ve seen several companies fire their customers. While this sounds inexplicable …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
I was having lunch with a friend who is a retired venture capitalist and we drifted into a …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled …
Raising our kids and being an entrepreneur wasn’t easy. Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents.
This post is not advice, nor is it …
I’ve just met four great startups in the last three days.
All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market” – one where competitors have a profitable business selling to customers who can name the market and can tell you …
At some point in my career, I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do” companies to ones that have lost their edge. I didn’t need to look much further than the “new building” debacle I had a …
I’m a slow learner. It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.)
In 1978 when I joined my first company, information …
The most important early customers for your startup usually turn out to be quite different from who you think they’re going to be.
When I was at Zilog, the Z8000 peripheral chips included the new “Serial Communications Controller” (SCC). As …
(Editor’s note: In the mid-1990s, serial entrepreneur Steve Blank was CEO of Rocket Science Games, a video game developer that lived by the motto “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” . After releasing three mediocre titles – including “Obsidian” and “The …
When I was a young marketer I learned how to listen to customers by making a fool of myself.
Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales …
