Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Their most profitable segment is very high-end processors used in data centers in servers and the cloud. For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs. Risk capital has provided financing for new ideas in the form of startups.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The cycle of creative destruction of the old being replaced by the new continues, fueled by angel and venture capital. Platform changes (web to mobile), faster technology (3G to 4G to 5G), commoditization of tech (Cloud). And therein lies the catch – investors have longer memories of failures than new entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

and satellites with synthetic aperture radar that can see through clouds and at night are able to pinpoint the strike group and carrier 24/7. In WWII knowing where the enemy fleet located was a big – and critical – question. Today, photo imaging satellites, satellites that track electronic emissions (radio, radar, etc.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

B2B – cloud services, online meetings, virtual workforce management, collaboration tools. Are there parts of your supply chain that can be repurposed? What about parts of your manufacturing lines? Online/Virtual learning – schools will need to embrace virtual learning in a way they haven’t before.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

There’s nothing more wasteful than having an Innovation Outpost reporting on disruption heading for the company’s core business (autonomous vehicles, machine learning, Virtual Reality, Cloud, Internet of Things, et al.) when no one at headquarters wants to listen.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Setup your Google or Amazon cloud infrastructure. Read: Steve Blank, “Lessons Learned – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch”, [link]. What resonates with customers? For web startups, start coding the product. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Class Lecture/Out of the Building Assignment: How do you create end user demand?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. While most of the social networks, cloud computing, web and mobile app companies we see today will fail, a few will literally remake our lives. My closing arguments are below.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. It can see through smoke and clouds. At the same time, a week doesn’t go by without another story about a quantum technology milestone or another quantum company getting funded. National and Commercial Efforts.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It was too loud to talk so I just watched the steel pour through the clouds of soot backlit by the blinding bright liquid metal. And as I stared through the billowing clouds of soot flashing between black and white took on fantastical shapes as tiny figures on the factory floor scurried around the bucket.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. More computing power – AI In the Cloud. Some cloud vendors train on >10TB data sets.

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