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		<title>Entrepreneurship is hard</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2012/09/entrepreneurship-is-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneur Steve Blank fixed electronic warfare equipment in Vietnam — which was a great job, from his 19-year-old perspective: One fine May day, on one of my infrequent trips to the flight line (I usually had to be dragged since it was really hot outside the air-conditioned shop), I noticed a few crew chiefs huddled [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fail Less</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2012/04/how-to-fail-less/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Derek Thompson interviews Steve Blank on the secrets of start-ups — or how to fail less: Can you really teach entrepreneurship? Many people say you can&#8217;t. They&#8217;re ignorant. But it was true that we didn&#8217;t know how to teach entrepreneurship for decades, because we didn&#8217;t understand how start-ups were different from large companies. Large companies execute. Start-ups in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model, Steve Blank says: At a board meeting last week I watched as the young startup CEO delivered bad news. “Our current plan isn’t working. We can’t scale the company. Each sale requires us to handhold the customer and takes way [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Death By Competitive Analysis</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/03/death-by-competitive-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Blank warns startups of the dangers of death by competitive analysis: In most startups the competitive analysis feature comparison ends up morphing into the Marketing Requirements Document that gets handed to engineering. The mandate becomes; “Our competitors have these features so our startup needs them too. Get to work and add all of these [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Death By Revenue Plan</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/02/death-by-revenue-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Blank describes Death By Revenue Plan: We were at the board meeting of company building a radically new type of communication hardware. The company was going through some tough times. It had taken the company almost twice as long as planned to get their product out the door. But that wasn’t what the heat [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Giant, Sophisticated, Disposable</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/01/giant-sophisticated-disposable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I had always assumed that spy satellites were chock-full of sophisticated electronics — including, of course, television cameras. This probably was true by the time I was aware of spy satellites, but the first spy satellites carried Kodak film, which they had to return to earth from orbit. They were giant, sophisticated, disposable [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/12/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%e2%80%93-sodas-are-no-longer-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Blank&#8217;s latest headline did its job and pulled me in — The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free: Last week as a favor to a friend, I sat in on a board meeting of a fairly successful 3½ year-old startup. Given all that could go wrong in this economy, they [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn, Discover, Iterate, and Execute</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/12/learn-discover-iterate-and-execute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Blank tells the tale of the second, more serious, time someone stole his startup idea: We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Those My Initials?</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/12/are-those-my-initials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone stole Steve Blank&#8217;s ideas on two occasions: Once it almost mattered. This is about the time it didn’t.[...]The first time was at Rocket Science Games. I was positioning the company as the second coming of the video games businesses at the intersection of “Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley.” This was a great positioning, it helped [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/lean-startups-aren%e2%80%99t-cheap-startups/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/lean-startups-aren%e2%80%99t-cheap-startups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups, Steve Blank explains: A Lean Startup is not about the total amount of money you may spend over the life of your startup. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending. If venture capital is flowing, you can make mistakes and just get more [&#8230;]]]></description>
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