Steve Blank quotes - page 2

Mentorship is a two-way street. While I was learning from them [brilliant mentors] - and their years of experience and expertise - what I was giving back was equally important. I brought fresh insights and new perspectives to their thinking. (Steve Blank)
Entrepreneurship is an art, not a job. View quote
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Only because earlyvangelists are buying into your total vision will they spend money for an incomplete, buggy, barely functions first product. View quote
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In a startup, founders define the product vision and then use customer discovery to find customers and a market for that vision. View quote
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Will you let darker angels win as you add fire to the flame, or will you seek out and spread real news? View quote
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Confusing testosterone with strategy is a bad idea. View quote
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Young entrepreneurs tend to be fearless and have no respect for the status quo, and that's exactly what you need in an environment where the status quo is going to put you out of business. View quote
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Strategy Is not a to-do list. View quote
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Winners understand why customers buy. View quote
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On Day One, a startup is a faith-based enterprise. View quote
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Your brains have been rewired to process all this Net-based information. Your brains are dealing with the world in a different way than humans ever have. That kind of profound shift has occurred only six times in the entire 200,000-year history of Homo Sapiens. And you, here today, are the vanguard of the seventh wave. (Steve Blank)
80% of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up...not those who wait to be asked. View quote
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To predict the future, 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy. View quote
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In Silicon Valley, we have a special word for a failed entrepreneur – it's called experienced. View quote
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Number one is "Do you have curiosity?" Number two is "Does it translate to imagination?" But number three is "Did it translate to action?" That's the difference between someone with an idea and someone who is an entrepreneur. View quote
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Building your product is easy. The hard part is getting customers. View quote
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Innovation comes from those who see things that other don't. View quote
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Progress and stability are mutually exclusive. View quote
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Entrepreneurs are artists and I mean "artists” in the true sense of the word: they see something no one else does. View quote
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While there is an occasional bad apple, the public market rewards companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits. View quote
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The best startups discover a situation where customers have tried to build a solution themselves. (Steve Blank)
Customer Development says "Glad you have these hypotheses about your startup. All of them are probably wrong.”. View quote
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A founder's skill is knowing how to recognize new patterns and to pivot on a dime. At times the pattern is noise, and the vision turns out to be a hallucination. View quote
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When I was young, I learned a quote in Sunday school that has stayed with me throughout my life. It said, 'teach us to number our days that we gain a heart of wisdom.' * Most of us will wake up 28,762 days- and then one day - we won't. That means you have about 21,000 days left - and about 14,000 of them for your career. So herein lies the urgency. View quote
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Customer Discovery is damn hard work. You can't fake it. View quote
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