Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

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Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. This same risk averse, conserve the cash, VC mindset would return after the 2008 meltdown of the housing market.).

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

Craig also co-founded Razorfish Studios, a media and entertainment company, producing books, films, TV shows, albums and websites. . We learned it’s not just music for media it’s, well, here’s one use case, here’s another use case, who is doing it and why?

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