Steve Blank

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

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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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

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. Today billions of dollars that companies could have invested in innovation are sitting in the hands of private equity funds.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Every year they fund several teams as they launch companies. He runs H4X Labs.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

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.).

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

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.).

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Seed Funding (Innofund). The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Seed Funding (Innofund). The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S.