Steve Blank

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The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Steve Blank

It does mean that success in building a company that scales depends on finding product/market fit, enough customers, enough financing, enough great employees, distribution channels, etc. It’s what allows you to create a missionary zeal to recruit others, get customers to buy into a vision and gets VC’s to finance a set of slides.

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Steve Blank

Perhaps instead of working for the latest social media or ecommerce company or in retail or travel or hospitality, you might want to make people live healthier, longer and more productive lives. If you’re thinking of starting a company, get to know the VC’s. They are different depending on the type of startup you’re building.

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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

She had an interesting insight: existing content/media companies were having the same problem as hardware companies that rarely made the leap to new platforms. And she had a model for a new media company for mobile and wearables. lots more women founders in media companies than you find in enterprise software companies.).

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

Steve Blank

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Seed Funding (Innofund). Venture Guiding Fund.

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

Steve Blank

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Seed Funding (Innofund). Venture Guiding Fund.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. This allows founder(s) to sell part of their stock (~10 to 33%) in a future round of financing. Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors. 4. Founder-friendly VCs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

The teams are beginning to understand that beneficiaries mean “Not the name of an organization but all the stakeholders in an organization (users, program managers, saboteurs, legal, finance, etc.)” The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media.