Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Pre-revenue software, internet, mobile and telecom deals. Others were able to provide additional data for one or more business verticals. In 2012 seven of the eight groups from California, Boston and New York were above the median of all groups. Pre-revenue life Science, biotech and medical device deals. Other pre-revenue deals.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

During the Internet bubble, one more function of the marketing department was to “buy” customer loyalty with enormous advertising and promotion spending to create a brand.) Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.? All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. I’m best known for my work in the consumer Internet space — founding LinkedIn and investing in platforms like Facebook and Airbnb.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

And that he might want to think about aligning all his video and Internet products under that name. As we were plotting marketing strategy, I mentioned that the phrase “Speaking to the Big Dogs” might end up as his corporate brand.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

We’re at a strategic point where our core business is experiencing solid growth and we’re ready to invest in significantly more advanced breathomics sensing and analytics into our roadmap, so we can begin to focus on the specific disease verticals that our data, reach and technology can have the greatest impact for. I attended in 2007.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Preserve your cash: When you have unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climate,) you can iterate on your mistakes by burning more dollars. This is the most important sentence in this post and worth deconstructing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Reply Why Startups Die | Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News , on October 3, 2009 at 9:20 pm Said: [.] Steve Case makes a strong case that the major reason for startup failuer is management using the classic Product Development management process rather than the emerging Customer Development process. [.]

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

You can find a lot of great videos, blogs and books on the Internet, but there is still no replacement for direct one-on-one mentoring. The Internet is full of great videos and blogs. Texas exports more than California and New York combined. Only California and New York have more. We all use the same Internet.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

consumer Internet) might have a really, really high bar of achievement for funding. Guaranteed Funding – Not Will this type of presentation guarantee you funding? Of course not. Even if you have the worlds best Lessons Learned slides you might find out that your particular market (i.e.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

The quintessential California couple, they stood out in our crowd as the engineer (in his late 20′s, respected by his peers and the customer) had hair down to his shoulders, sharply contrasting with the military crewcuts of the customers and most of the other contractors. Instead, this is a culture clash.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you want to refer to PVO by name, call it just PVO (acronym for “Air Defense&# in Russian). Reply Nelson A.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The Digital Dream Team Way before the Internet phenomenon, we had created “Rocket Science the brand ” that was much bigger in size and importance than Rocket Science the company. Companies in the entertainment business around the world knew who we were, and were interested in meeting us, if only to see what the hype was about.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Dave’s Note: William Fisher is CEO of Quicksilver Software, a software and Internet game development company in Southern California. We’re successful because we specialize in “hard problems” but not in any one vertical market. Guest Post by William Fisher.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

A large number of these customers had mailed back their registration cards (this was pre-Internet) with their names, phone numbers, job titles, etc. This was a company that had sold 15,000 graphics boards and monitors to consumers. So I asked the fatal question, “Has anyone ever looked at the customer registration cards?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. No internet, no blogs, no books [.] You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. Driving across the U.S. is an adventure everyone ought to do.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

» 25 Responses Mark Soper , on November 30, 2009 at 6:55 am Said: Steve, I’m working on a consumer internet product concept at the customer discovery phase.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Think of the Microprocessor, Personal Computer, Internet, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Google, the iPhone. Creating those technologies and companies required entrepreneurs willing to follow their own vision and convincing others that the path is worth following.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

The aim through Project Kairos as part of Internet of Things World event is to provide startups with their supreme moment – the one which kicks off the transition from IoT newbie to dominant industry player. Startup City is part of Project Kairos and located on the Internet of Things World expo floor. 450+ speakers take the stage.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. Peter, Max, Luke Nosek , and I held an off-site at my grandparents’ house in Gualala, California, to figure this out.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. Internet users in US – 225 million, mobile 260MM. China Internet: 340MM, Mobile a staggering 650MM. couponing, vertical social networks, Internet TV, etc. Especially Star Wars & The Matrix.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2019

Most importantly for smart cities and communities, 5G is designed from the ground up to support the Internet of Things. So in addition to delivering faster and more data, it will help connect everything from autonomous vehicles and medical equipment to smart trash cans and intelligent lighting. But other cities seem to be dragging their feet.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Now I guess it’s “never bet against the Internet,&# with all that implies. I.e., they’d rather have a decent-performing personal machine than have to share a high-performance machine. Well, “duh.&# Never bet against the desktop. But this was 1985; we didn’t know any better.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. was the worst ever.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

In Newark, a Vertical Indoor Farm Helps Anchor an Area’s Revival nytimes.com/glogin?URI=htt…. How Google Destroyed Internet Explorer, Visualized bit.ly/1Nactfq. Who Is To Blame For California’s Drought? 5 Tips For Small Businesses During Tax Season forbes.com/sites/drewhend…. How to Stay Positive in the Face of Doubt bit.ly/1FCAVPI.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply Quora , on March 12, 2011 at 12:54 am said: What are the free software tools and online services one should leverage for an internet start-up just getting started from an idea?… This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. Thanks for your work. I have lots to go through!

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