Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. like WeChat.).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Conservation and Development at Duke followed. Steve was CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. The Amazon Kindle played on Amazon’s strengths as a distributor of content but required developing expertise in electronics and manufacturing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

The team is working to develop a technique to score how likely it is that a given online persona is who they claim to be, and how that conclusion was reached. Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. This team did a great job. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

Then, and only then, can they move on to developing a detailed value proposition canvas for each of the beneficiaries. The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. They developed their first high-level view (slide 5) of how an analyst does his job.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

Then, and only then, can they move on to developing a detailed value proposition canvas for each of the beneficiaries. The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. They developed their first high-level view (slide 5) of how an analyst does his job.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

The team is working to develop a technique to score how likely it is that a given online persona is who they claim to be, and how that conclusion was reached. Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. This team did a great job. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. Our competitor was executing on hypotheses we had developed 9 months ago, and their strategy remained static. EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] This time it was serious.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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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. . Filed under: Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Whether you like it or not, or know it or not, you’re coming of age at just that extraordinary time in human development. That’s the world you’re graduating into – immersed in social media, with infinite facts and continuous news. Likes” and thumbs up and posting on social media are addictive, at times like a chemical dependency.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Andy continued to work with Steve for several years and has developed marketing, branding and communication strategies for game-changing technologies and companies ever since. Chris Schroeder.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Conservation and Development at Duke followed. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Core Values Even after we had Mission and Intent down pat, one of the things that still drove me crazy was when we failed to deliver a project for sales on time or we missed a media deadline, everyone in my department had an excuse. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. I was impressed with the fact that he understood that.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development. In the 21 st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

Audience(s), Message, Media, Messenger. Select the media you want the message to be read/seen/heard on. These are very different audiences, each requires its own messages, media and messengers. Step 3: Media. Media means the type of communications media each audience member reads/listens to/watches.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

It is a skill you need to either have or develop. I’ve built my company using the Customer Development Model from Day One. Not so much on the sinking venture, but seeing you gents in action, developing and selling blind to navigational course corrections. If not, don’t wait. Get started asking.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Second, to share how my how my thinking about entrepreneurship as a distinct practice and how Customer Development as one of its central components has evolved over the last decade. And with the 30-year statute of limitations now passed, stories about who I worked for (and the names of agencies.). Now Hear This.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Listen to my full interviews with Stan and Matt by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Andy continued to work with Steve for several years and has developed marketing, branding and communication strategies for game-changing technologies and companies ever since. Chris Schroeder.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Get of the building and test those hypotheses using customer development. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad. Air Force Customer Development Lean LaunchPad'

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Listen to my full interviews with Stan and Matt by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2016

The team is working with the intelligence community to develop a technique to score how likely it is that a given online persona is who they claim to be, and how that conclusion was reached. Almost every military program has at least four customer segments: Concept Developers, Capability Managers, Program Managers, Users.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Gathering real-world feedback from customers is a core concept of Customer Development as well as the Lean Startup. Customer Development suggests that founders have continual and timely customer, channel and market information. Posted in Customer Development Manifesto. Tags: Customer Development Manifesto.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. In slides 6-9 they plotted all the potential adversary communication trends on social media problems, and in slide 7 overlaid that problem space with existing commercial solutions.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

He also co-founded three companies: a broadcasting network, Air America Media, a solar energy company, Atenergy and a branding agency, Brand Maestro. government is the biggest spender and the biggest investor in research and development in the world. And some of it could be in development.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

Craig also co-founded Razorfish Studios, a media and entertainment company, producing books, films, TV shows, albums and websites. . We were creative designers and front-end developers in a highly creative environment, and we merged with a Boston-based back-end technology company who was working in Fortran, and old school. (In

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

. — As executive director Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing , Kathy Ku oversees the licensing of Stanford-developed technologies. She took a break from Stanford in 1990 and 1991, as VP of business development at Protein Design Labs , Inc. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. And how the engineering process could be turned Agile.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Filed under: Customer Development « Requiem For A Roommate 2 Responses steve , on October 21, 2010 at 7:05 am Said: what did Carl say at 1:12 ? I think he was saying that politicians and the media are trying to promote entreprenuership as the salvation of the nation, is that correct? the video skipped or something?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

The team originally was developing tech-centric tools for foreign teams to consult with their American counterparts in real time to disarm IED’s, and to document key information about what they have found. Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

The team originally was developing tech-centric tools for foreign teams to consult with their American counterparts in real time to disarm IED’s, and to document key information about what they have found. Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media.

Social Media 120

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Worries from the garage One of the worries I hear from entrepreneurs (not just my students) is that Customer Development means getting out of the building and sharing what you are working on. My co-founder, head of business development and I were in Japan raising money. Once it almost mattered. This is about the time it didn’t.

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