Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. By comparison, in 2011 Chinese VC’s invested $13 billion in all deals. The number of deals in Technology, Media and Telecommunications more than doubled in 2011 over the previous five years and slowed back down dramatically in 2012. China now has plenty of both. venture capitalists invested $26.5

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. The question of how corporations can be more innovative is one I have wrestled with for a long time.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Will was honored at the White House as part of the 2011 Empact 100 list , for his work as a young entrepreneur. But it’s sales that really drive your progress with those three groups of people. Will Zell started his first company, a real estate business, at age 22. whether that’s partners or employees that you bring on.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. This has been nearly a 4-year journey,” said Schonthal who prior to moving back to Chicago in 2011 had been working in healthcare venture capital in San Diego.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. The hard part in a company is not getting a demo or setting up an internal accelerator, it’s getting something delivered all the way through your existing sales channel. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2016

” They said, “It’s OK, I’m going to buy it once it’s for sale so I’ll be your first customer.” Before opening The Root Café with his wife Corri in 2011, Jack Sundell was in the Peace Corps. . … They put their credit card in and paid for the app. We’ll refund the money.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

In the Roku case study we’ve chosen three execution branches: (1) delivery platforms, (2) sales channels, and (3) chip platforms. Sales channels. Sales channels are the paths through which your product lands in customers’ hands. Some sales channels may behave similarly; more often than not, they each pose unique challenges.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. If you had dropped by in 2011, the first time I taught the class, and then stuck your head in today, you’d say it was the same class.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

And the organization to implement all this was not through traditional sales, marketing and business development groups on day one. Then in the fall of 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Stanford version of the Lean LaunchPad class. Instead the founders need to lead a customer development team.

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