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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Tom Bedecarré , the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Steve was CEO of MovieLabs , the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. He runs H4X Labs.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

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. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Tom Bedecarré the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Steve was CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. He runs H4X Labs. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . . It included things like advertising, marketing analytics, cyber security.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

By the end of the 19 th century mass circulation papers had developed the characteristics that your parents would recognize today—headlines, illustrations, entertaining stories – all designed to shortcut critical thinking, and stir passion and emotion to sell newspapers and, of course, advertising. Readers of newspapers had new brains.

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Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

Facebook and Social Media. This intersection of a customer base of billions of people with applications that are used/needed 24/7 never existed before.The potential revenue and profits from these users (or advertisers who want to reach them) and the speed of scale of the winning companies can be breathtaking. And who can blame them.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Tom Bedecarré was the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Four decades as part of the most successful advertising agencies in the world. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

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