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. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. He runs H4X Labs.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. When I sat down with Admiral Selby , we talked about Google.

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Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 322

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. Adapt, adopt and extend is probably a better description. like WeChat.). Entrepreneurial Culture.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. In contrast, large companies are often risk- averse engines – they are executing a repeatable and scalable business model that spins out the short-term dividends, revenue and profits that the stock market rewards.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. In contrast, large companies are often risk- averse engines – they are executing a repeatable and scalable business model that spins out the short-term dividends, revenue and profits that the stock market rewards.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

They had reinvented a traditional print media category onto web and mobile devices for a new generation of users who were no longer buying magazines but reading online. Equally important their VP of Marketing had brilliantly executed a stream of social media campaigns (Facebook likes and partnerships, email campaigns, etc.)

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Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. To contract engineers? Narrative Mind.

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Social Media Customer Programming Video 132

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. To contract engineers? Narrative Mind.

Social Media 120

Social Media Customer Programming Video 120

Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2012

I teach entrepreneurship for ~50 student teams a year from engineering schools at Stanford , Berkeley, and Columbia. Facebook and Social Media. Today, social media startups can return 100’s of millions or even billions in less than 3 years. Instead, the investor money is moving to social media. Kennedy, September 1962.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Social Media Media 336

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Fast-forward three years and Todd is now Captain Todd Branchflower , teaching electrical engineering at the Air Force Academy. He promised that one day he would fix that.

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Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 255

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.

Washington 285

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 285

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. And our Director of Technical Marketing was superb at understanding customer needs and communicating them to engineering.

Silicon Valley 259

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 259

Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

We know enough to harden sites to stop the simple hacks and to educate employees about basic social engineering and phishing attempts. I think we need the equivalent of gun safety training for online access. We now know the basic tools online hackers use. Lessons Learned. The web is not a benign environment.

Security 258

Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 258

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. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

My engineers say our website is old school, and we need to be on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, my VP of Sales says we’re wasting our marketing dollars not targeting the right people and my board keeps giving me their opinions of how we should describe our product and company. Audience(s), Message, Media, Messenger. Step 3: Media.

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Marketing Audience Technical Review PR 310

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Two massive changes are occurring in automobiles: 1) the transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and 2) the introduction of automated driving. Engine instruments were added to measure the health of the aircraft engines – fuel and oil quantity, pressure, and temperature and engine speed.

Technical Review 292

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 292

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And I understood engineering since I interacted with them almost daily. And finally, I had a great working relationship with our engineers who designed the chips. I found that having a senior marketer responsible for business strategy surrounded by ex-engineers and domain experts makes one heck of a powerful marketing department.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review California 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven.

Artificial Inteligence 318

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. Fast-forward three years and Todd is now Captain Todd Branchflower , teaching electrical engineering at the Air Force Academy. He promised that one day he would fix that.

Silicon Valley 151

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 151

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

For software, gone are the days of having to buy a new version of physical media (disks or CD’s.) ” Translated into English this meant that Apple engineering recoding the products ran out of time to put all the old features back into the new versions.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

We know enough to harden sites to stop the simple hacks and to educate employees about basic social engineering and phishing attempts. I think we need the equivalent of gun safety training for online access. We now know the basic tools online hackers use. Lessons Learned. The web is not a benign environment.

Security 152

Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 152

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. 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.

Architecture 227

Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

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.

Washington 120

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new class in Stanford’s School Engineering, where students learn about the nation’s security challenges by working with innovators inside the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community. They talked to 86 customers/stakeholders before the class started. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

Lean 120

Lean Silicon Valley Social Media Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Stanford; worked at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical as a research scientist; administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California; and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses. Prior to joining Columbia, Orin spent seven years with the Boston Consulting Group’s New York office.

Government 120

Government Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2010

The first time I taught the Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship class, a quarter of the class were foreign students in a special engineering-entrepreneurship program where they took one entrepreneurship class each quarter at Stanford while working full time in technology startups in Silicon Valley. Guest Speakers.

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley Business Model Customer Development Engineer 126

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.

San Diego 142

San Diego Metrics Indonesia Silicon Valley 142

Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

During the Covid pandemic, most of her engineering team worked remotely. Her inside sales team (Sales Development and Business Development reps) used email, phone, social media and Zoom for prospecting and generating leads. Keep Your Eye on The Prize. Had a repeatable and scalable sales process truly been validated? I Hate New York.

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New York Miami Silicon Valley Sales 333

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Being a physicist-turned-engineer, I have very little experience working with anything but men. From electric cars to drones, DNA sequencing to robotic surgery, enterprise software to social media –the size and variety of these markets makes the Valley of my early days look bush league. I was working and competing with men daily.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Chicago Cofounder 333

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. The Torch Program is the worlds largest “lets engineer entrepreneurial clusters” experiment. – The Torch Program.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

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 : … the entrepreneurial engine of the United States is bar none the most efficient wealth creation and job creation tool that has ever existed. … .

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Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. The Torch Program is the worlds largest “lets engineer entrepreneurial clusters” experiment. – The Torch Program.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How do they become present on new social media and communications channels? How do they convert existing manufacturing plants (and their workforce) for a completely new set of technologies? How do they bring on new supply chains? How do they connect with a new generation of customers who had no brand loyalty?

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Framework Distribution Channel Leadership 389

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

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. of Management Science and Engineering. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. 21 st Century Frogman.

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