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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building
Some of the most important business lessons are learned in the most unlikely ways. At Ardent I learned many of them with a sharp smack on the side of the head from a brilliant but abusive boss. Not a … more →
Steve Blank
Startup Evolution; Early-Stage vs Growth-Stage Companies
wrote 1 week ago: It’s the first week of TechStars Boulder 2012 and excitement is in the air. The founders are f … more →
The Startup Leap to Success
wrote 1 year ago: One of the most challenging periods for any startup is passing through the “Valley of Death”. During … more →
Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building
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wrote 2 years ago: Some of the most important business lessons are learned in the most unlikely ways. At Ardent I learn … more →
Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal
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wrote 2 years ago: Last month on an east coast college tour with my daughter, I found myself in North Carolina for the … more →
The Leading Cause of Startup Death - Part 1: The Product Development Diagram
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wrote 2 years ago: When I started working in Silicon Valley, every company bringing a new product to market used some f … more →
Rocket Science 5: Who Needs Domain Experts
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wrote 2 years ago: What Business Are We In? While the Rocket Science press juggernaut moved inexorably forward, a few t … more →
Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product
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wrote 2 years ago: At Rocket Science while my partner Peter was managing the tools and game development, I was managing … more →
Rocket Science 3: Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley
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wrote 2 years ago: What do you mean you don’t want to hear about features? I was now a CEO of Rocket Science, and … more →
Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid
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wrote 2 years ago: Sometimes faith-based decisions can be based on too much faith. Entrepreneur-in-Residence After Supe … more →
Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores
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wrote 2 years ago: When I was a young marketer I learned how to listen to customers by making a fool of myself. Twenty … more →
Elephants Can Dance - Reinventing HP
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wrote 2 years ago: I was at the Stanford library going through the papers of Fred Terman and came across a memo from 19 … more →
Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime.
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wrote 2 years ago: When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them … more →
Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making
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wrote 2 years ago: I’ve screwed up a lot of startups on faith. One of the key tenets of entrepreneurship is that you st … more →
Vertical Markets 3: Reducing Risk in Startups
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wrote 2 years ago: This post makes sense when you read the previous two vertical markets posts first. Reducing Risk – S … more →
Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk
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wrote 3 years ago: This post makes sense when you read the previous vertical markets post first. Customer/Market Risk V … more →
Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same
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wrote 3 years ago: In the past entrepreneurship was viewed (and taught) as a single process, with a single approach to … more →
Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters - Part 2
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wrote 3 years ago: I wrote this “Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters” memo as a board member after I saw o … more →
Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters - Part 1
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wrote 3 years ago: Ignore This Post If you’re selling via the web and trade shows are something your grandfather … more →
Founders and dysfunctional families
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wrote 3 years ago: Startup CEO Traits I was having lunch with a friend who is a retired venture capitalist and we drift … more →
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