Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Some companies use a suggestion box, others like Google give employees 20% of their time to work on their own projects.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. 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.

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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. Turnover of employees in capital in Beijing is very high. like WeChat.).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. With 115,000 employees Apple can barely get annual updates out for their laptops and desktop computers. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. With 115,000 employees Apple can barely get annual updates out for their laptops and desktop computers. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

When they did their first partnership with IBM, they had just 32 employees. States can utilize subversive and disruptive messaging on social media and other platforms to sow discord and confusion within an adversary’s borders. There were a couple of little competitors in the 80s, who didn’t seem like much.

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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. What ended up happening, however, was we were eventually subsumed under the traditional media business. Chris Schroeder. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Andy Cunningham.

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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

MARCH 8, 2017

It drove me crazy when we failed to deliver a project for sales on time or we missed a media deadline. A few became ex-employees. In addition to customer discovery, creating end user demand, and product strategy, Marketing also serves as a service organization to sales. But the rest felt empowered and responsible.

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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. . I try to listen wherever I go.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

It’s time to teach Cyber Security as integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to all corporate employees. We know enough to harden sites to stop the simple hacks and to educate employees about basic social engineering and phishing attempts. The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared.

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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

MAY 13, 2013

It’s time to teach Cyber Security as integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to all corporate employees. We know enough to harden sites to stop the simple hacks and to educate employees about basic social engineering and phishing attempts. The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared.

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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. In the 21 st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs. What’s holding large companies back?

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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. What ended up happening, however, was we were eventually subsumed under the traditional media business. Chris Schroeder. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Andy Cunningham.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Department Mission Statements – What am I Supposed to Do Today It wasn’t that we somehow had inherited dumb employees. The idea of intention is that if employees understand the thinking behind the mission, they can work collaboratively to achieve it. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

In 1995, he co-founded the digital services firm, Razorfish and grew it from a two-man startup to more than $250 million and 2,200 employees. Craig also co-founded Razorfish Studios, a media and entertainment company, producing books, films, TV shows, albums and websites. . … you are responsible now.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The founders along with all the other employees would vest their stock over 4 years (earning 1/48 a month). This often is a way for founders and early employees to turn some of their stock into cash before an IPO or sale of company. And woe to the employee who got in their way of delivering the future.

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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. Worry about the sales results. After that you’ve become a battle-hardened realist.

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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. Javier explained how the SBA helps drive entrepreneurship in the U.S.: Folks across the federal government have incredible ideas and they’re trying to get some amazing things done. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. Sergey Brin once said, “Instead of having our employees in large buildings, we could have several thousand houses each with a garage – there’s nothing stopping us from doing that.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner. If you work 100-hour weeks, no one (investors, co-founders, employees) can blame you if things don’t work out, right?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. On my view, the best students (and employees) are the ones that are there for the enjoyment of the process. Reply Quote of the Day | Bronte Media , on April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm Said: [.] Written by Chris F.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. Cannot keep up with the pace of innovation in its industry, as is happening in the pharmaceutical, financial services and consumer packaged goods industries.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps. Ended in Week 10 as hybrid work collaboration + employee engagement. If you can’t see the Pause slides, click here. Team Celsius.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

One neighbor owned the corner drug store, and another had a furniture store, though most of our neighbors were simply employees with 9-5 jobs in retail and construction. Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

One neighbor owned the corner drug store, and another had a furniture store, though most of our neighbors were simply employees with 9-5 jobs in retail and construction. Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc.

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