Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first part was railing against the consequences of regulatory capture on innovation and a second part, about the consequences of premature government regulation of AI and why the incumbents are all for it. He recently gave a talk at the All-In Summit that was really two talks in one. In the U.S. Bill Gurley’s point.)

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. And Jonathan has done artist management agency WISEgroup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation. (Social entrepreneurs take note!)

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry. As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

As people get more and more used to piloting, they will start to ask themselves “why wait until the last minute?&# (See Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter Drucker for more on this thesis.) In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  4)      Boston.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. We managed to create a single software that is so powerful that we can optimize any business whether it is manufacturing, retail, transportation, oil and gas, metals or anything else. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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