Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bill’s closing line, “The reason why Silicon Valley is so successful is that it’s so fxxxng far away from Washington” received great applause. Tech Companies Use Regulatory Capture In my first two decades inside the Silicon Valley bubble we built products people wanted and needed. Who influences who? In what order?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Carpe Diem.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. By then it was too late.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

1998 – the MPAA got congress to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it illegal for you to make a digital copy of a DVD that you actually purchased. 2006 - broadcasters sued Cablevision (and lost) to prevent the launch of a cloud-based DVR to its customers. The reality? DVR’s reignite interest in TV.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. JustEat - is the intermediary between customers and independent takeaway food outlets.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books.

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