Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. It did not mean building a startup into a company to flip or hype on the market with no earnings or revenue, but building a company that had paying customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

Silicon Valley 269

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 269

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

Silicon Valley 161

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 161

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

She received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing, and is currently a member of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Deputy Director of Intramural Research. We put (these inventions and patents) out on the web or we contact companies etc. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

Government 120

Government Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 120

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. To grab attention, you must not only understand the needs of your market, but also the noise that goes along with it.

Clickthrough 118

Clickthrough Conversion Lead Generation Audience 118