Holding a Cat by the Tail · Lessons From an Entrepreneurial Life by Blank, Steve -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Entrepreneurship Is an Art

Entrepreneurs as Dissidents Too Young to Know It Can’t Be Done Entrepreneurship Is an Art, Not a Job Tenacious You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur Founders and Dysfunctional Families Incentives and Legends Emulating Empathy Entrepreneurial Finishing School—Should I Get an MBA? Napkin Entrepreneurs Mentors, Coaches and Teachers The Apprentice—Entrepreneur Version Killing Your Startup By Listening to Customers Blinded by the Light—The Epiphany

Startups Are Not Small Versions of Large Companies

A Startup Is Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company What’s A Startup? First Principles Touching the Hot Stove—Experiential Versus Theoretical Learning Search Versus Execute Make No Little Plans—Defining the Scalable Startup Lean Startups Aren’t Cheap Startups How to Build a Billion Dollar Startup 9 Deadliest Startup Sins Why Too Many Startups (er) Suck Startup Suicide—Rewriting the Code Open Source Entrepreneurship

The Customer Development Manifesto—A Startup's Guiding Light

Corporate Innovation—Making Elephants Dance

The Future of Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Durant Versus Sloan When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma—Customer Development in a Big Company Why Innovation Dies No Accounting For Startups The Search For the Fountain of Youth—Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup Why Board Meetings Suck—Part 1 of 2 Reinventing the Board Meeting—Part 2 of 2—Virtual Valley Ventures Why Governments Don’t Get Startups How the iPhone Got Tail Fins—Part 1 of 2 How the iPhone Got Tail Fins—Part 2 of 2

Startup Culture

Preparing for Chaos—the Life of a Startup Faith-Based Versus Fact-Based Decision Making The Startup Team The Road Not Taken The End of Innocence Relentless—The Difference Between Motion And Action Closure The Elves Leave Middle Earth—Sodas Are No Longer Free No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers—Business Plans versus Business Models The Cover-Up Culture Burnout I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you. The Peter Pan Syndrome–The Startup to Company Transition You’ll Be Dead Soon—Carpe Diem

On-the-Job Training—The Best Way to Learn

An Entrepreneur in the Family

Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves Epitaph for an Entrepreneur Unintended Lessons Thanksgiving Day The Seven Days of Christmas

VC Confidential

Steve's Favorite Posts

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars Philadelphia University Commencement Speech Requiem For A Roommate