Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

But in the bubble, startups got creative and shortened the time needed to get a product to the customer by releasing “beta’s” (buggy products still needing testing) and having the customers act as their Quality Assurance group. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . In ’05, social networking was not quite as prevalent as is it today. ” This was around 2001. Steve : That’s an interesting … It’s truly an ‘old boy’ network.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. Peggy : I networked. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. I would never ever present anything that I didn’t think was “legendary.” Everything disappeared.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2014

Back in 2001, Consumer Reports put out a study that revealed the average American was consciously exposed to roughly 247 marketing messages daily, yet only really noticed around half of them. In an earlier study by OutBrain , looking at only paid links within their network, it was found that the number of words increased to 16-18 words.

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