Comments on: SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within – So Get the Hell Outside the Building http://steveblank.com/2009/03/20/supermac-war-story-2-facts-exist-outside-the-building-opinions-reside-within-%e2%80%93-so-get-the-hell-outside-the-building/ Entrepreneurship and Conservation Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:39:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rick Dearr http://steveblank.com/2009/03/20/supermac-war-story-2-facts-exist-outside-the-building-opinions-reside-within-%e2%80%93-so-get-the-hell-outside-the-building/#comment-8927 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:28:24 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=374#comment-8927 Steve,

First I’ve got to thank you for getting out of the Mac Hard Drive business just as I was getting in…

I love hearing these stories. Larry Benet posted a couple links on FaceBook that lead me here, I’m thanking him too.

You have inspired me to put down in writing some of my time at CMS Enhancements, as the Apple Division Director there.

I loved your piece about family and work balance, and my girls (now 28 & 25) still remember how we would tell them “We’re going out to dinner” and arriving at DisneyLand for that dinner, and a few rides. Surprises like that were good for all of us.

Keep up the great content I look forward to more of your insights.

Rick

We’ll have to trade war stories about MacWorld parties… Getting the VIP treatment from the magazines was always fun…

]]> By: dave http://steveblank.com/2009/03/20/supermac-war-story-2-facts-exist-outside-the-building-opinions-reside-within-%e2%80%93-so-get-the-hell-outside-the-building/#comment-8127 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:05:56 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=374#comment-8127 think for this big lessons, I’m working on launching my (hope!) startup. and now I made a prototype I’ms aying I have to really ask to users, not just send emails :)
an article about how making questionary would be great!

]]> By: Jeff @ McStartup http://steveblank.com/2009/03/20/supermac-war-story-2-facts-exist-outside-the-building-opinions-reside-within-%e2%80%93-so-get-the-hell-outside-the-building/#comment-190 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:09:08 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=374#comment-190 Wow, this reads almost verbatim like the story of what happened to me after my last startup was acquired by a public company in the valley and I became the VP of Marketing. Thanks for the memories (or not, as the case may be!) – but thanks for spreading the good marketing advice. The percentage of marketing departments to live in the ivory tower rather than get out to meet with customers has got to be staggeringly high.

]]> By: Denis http://steveblank.com/2009/03/20/supermac-war-story-2-facts-exist-outside-the-building-opinions-reside-within-%e2%80%93-so-get-the-hell-outside-the-building/#comment-36 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:39:56 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=374#comment-36 Could you make a post on how to come up with the right questions for the survey? Clearly you have no problem doing this with your experience, but the rest of us could use a guide or some “rule of thumb” kind of thing.

Thanks.

]]> By: Asad http://steveblank.com/2009/03/20/supermac-war-story-2-facts-exist-outside-the-building-opinions-reside-within-%e2%80%93-so-get-the-hell-outside-the-building/#comment-24 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:55:39 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=374#comment-24 I just came to this article from Hacker News(It’s not what you think, its a YCombinator comp). I have to say I found this post a really interesting and useful read. Please keep writing, you have found a new eager customer.

]]> By: Dave Goulden http://steveblank.com/2009/03/20/supermac-war-story-2-facts-exist-outside-the-building-opinions-reside-within-%e2%80%93-so-get-the-hell-outside-the-building/#comment-8 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:03:31 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=374#comment-8 Thanks for sharing these great stories. Can’t wait to hear what you did next at SuperMac.

]]> By: Dmitriy Kruglyak http://steveblank.com/2009/03/20/supermac-war-story-2-facts-exist-outside-the-building-opinions-reside-within-%e2%80%93-so-get-the-hell-outside-the-building/#comment-5 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:48:47 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=374#comment-5 Steve, I look forward to a similar backstory on E.piphany marketing!

]]> By: ben8128 http://steveblank.com/2009/03/20/supermac-war-story-2-facts-exist-outside-the-building-opinions-reside-within-%e2%80%93-so-get-the-hell-outside-the-building/#comment-4 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:18:29 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=374#comment-4 Steve,

I’m very happy to see that you are putting these thoughts up on a blog. There are some great lessons in your experiences here, and I feel like I can keep getting more in my post-MS&E273 life!

Ben

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