Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. Or blame my MarCom department who approved it. Worry about the sales results. What did we learn?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I spent my first seventeen years in a city where there were just three major TV channels, three major newspapers, and no Internet. That’s the world you’re graduating into – immersed in social media, with infinite facts and continuous news. You live it, you’re immersed in it. The rest of the world had much, much less.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

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. . Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Programs/applications can be games, social media, office applications, missile guidance systems, bitcoin mining, or even operating systems e.g. Linux, Windows, IOS. These programs run on the same type of classic computer architectures they were programmed in. AI in National Security. AI/ML and Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111, shared how a passion for food, and a personal need for modest but fashionable clothing fueled decisions to begin second careers as startup founders. Channeling a passion. … (We used) social media (to create demand) … mostly Facebook.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

In companies this would be product line extensions, more efficient supply chain, new distribution channels. NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

They mapped out competitive offerings, found that Government funding is not the proper channel for Capella, but did find that the Coast guard is currently in dire need of situational awareness at high resolution and that military customers want access to raw data; commercial customers highly value processed data for actionable insights.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

With social media and with bloggers and with the cable TV and all the different networks that you can get on television and radio like this, everybody you look at is an influencer now. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. They can just be somebody who writes a blog. It’s a lot harder to target it.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

They mapped out competitive offerings, found that Government funding is not the proper channel for Capella, but did find that the Coast guard is currently in dire need of situational awareness at high resolution and that military customers want access to raw data; commercial customers highly value processed data for actionable insights.

Social Media 120

Social Media Networking Naming Aggregator 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Getting businesses online, giving them social media skills, coaching on the canvas, as a critical thing they were doing for Main Street businesses. Join our educators slack channel here. The individual Small Business Development Centers are doing the best they can to come up with a “just getting started” program.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Customer Development suggests that founders have continual and timely customer, channel and market information. You assemble this view by gathering information from a variety of sources: web sites, social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, et al) sales data, win/loss information, market research data (i.e. Continual Data Flow.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

With social media and with bloggers and with the cable TV and all the different networks that you can get on television and radio like this, everybody you look at is an influencer now. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. They can just be somebody who writes a blog. It’s a lot harder to target it.

Washington 120

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. The problem is that our messaging on the home page shouts “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&#.

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