Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In order to survive, a business needs to have somebody to make the product, to deliver the service, to manage the money, to manage the brand, the social media and so on. Maybe you have to work your way up to managing a restaurant before an investor will consider you. Consider: in about 1993, Apple released the Apple Newton.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. We started all these change projects--sensors in airliner engines, or in CAT scan machines, so we could tell management how valuable that data is for them to help run the business better. Your first big innovation was also a huge cultural moment.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

This seems like a no-brainer but Ballmer and the MSFT board might lean towards a less risky path. Remember Lou Gerstner ran American Express before taking the helm at IBM in 1993. The path to being awesome in something would look roughly like this. 1) Hire transformative CEO to replace Ballmer. Want names?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. General managers of divisons are compensated on division P&L not long term innovation. You cannot say it is the people (owners, manager or workers). What is a company anyway?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. So I asked her this: “What do I do with my 1,000th post?”. Make it unique.

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