Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. These kinds of success cases continue to happen in Japan’s startup community and in corporations that have to innovate to remain competitive in the global market.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The Perfect Storm.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Before moving to Bend last year, my career took me from engineering development roles at defense contractors in the 80’s to product management and executive marketing roles in companies like Qualcomm in the 90’s, to the world of venture capital at several firms including Bay Partners, Formative Ventures and Vulcan Ventures.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue , in the Department of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, observed that bubbles have four phases; stealth, awareness, mania and blow-off. Filed under: Venture Capital. I contend that we are approaching the early part of the mania phase.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Almost every large company understands it needs to build an organization that deals with the ever-increasing external forces of continuous disruption , the need for continuous innovation , globalization and regulation. But there is no standard strategy and structure for creating corporate innovation. —-.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

When venture capital teamed up with technology entrepreneurs in the 1960’s they brought with them the canonical MBA planning tool – the business plan. From the seed of this initial idea Professor Nathan Furr at BYU did the hard work and created a global business model competition, this year receiving over 100 submissions.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Innovation Clusters. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

These countries are great models of countries too small to sustain startups of scale on just domestic consumption yet have managed to create innovation with a global reach. Venture Capital. The country needs to build a deeper Venture Capital industry. Filed under: Teaching , Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Innovation Clusters. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Peggy Burke is a 30+-year design executive with expertise in creating global brands. And, Pitch Johnson who was the chairman of the board at Boole & Babbage and a venture capitalist, took me around and introduced me to every venture capital firm in Silicon Valley at the time. ” A lightbulb hit, “Aha.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Sandberg had been the vice president of global online sales and operations. Filed under: Venture Capital. Schmidt had been the CEO of Novell and previously CTO of Sun Microsystems. Four years after Facebook started they hired Sheryl Sandberg as the COO. Today unicorn boards have a lot less leverage.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

F-117 Nighthawk - 1st Stealth Ground Attack Plane These changes in American defense policy spooked the Soviets.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power. Horowitz et al., “ China Has Made Drone Warfare Global ” Foreign Affairs , 2020. It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. Use of Drones in Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

government’s role in setting investment policy, venture capital has set the direction for what new industries attract capital. Science and National Industrial Policy as we face the realities of China and global competition. This approach was successful when U.S. industry was aligned with manufacturing in the U.S.,

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

And this has created a global entrepreneurial ecosystem. Companies will have to maintain a portfolio of new business model initiatives, not unlike a venture capital firm, and they will have to accept that maybe only 1 out 10 initiatives might succeed. And this is ironic because big companies have so much to add.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. It’s made up of ONR – the Office of Naval Research , ONR Global , the Naval Research Laboratory , and Special Projects (PMR 51.). Our guest speaker was Rear Admiral Lorin Selby , Chief of Naval Research, United States Navy.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Thank you, global meltdown! Reply Steve , on June 15, 2009 at 9:29 am Said: Ouch! I think I just felt something pierce my reality distortion field! Better go spend some “quantity time&# with my family. Great post… Reply Anonymous , on June 15, 2009 at 9:58 am Said: This resonates with me.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Existing companies are starting to feel the pressures of new technologies and the massive wave of new entrants fueled by the explosion of investment from a recent form of financing – venture capital. Venture capital firms, as we know them only date back to the 1970s.)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

It called out China as a peer competitor to America, pursuing its goal of global dominance. Venture capital and startups have institutionalized disruptive innovation. they spend $150 billion a year to fund new ventures that can move with the speed and urgency that the DoD now requires. In the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Summary: Bend Is a Global Entrepreneurship Experiment. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Venture Capital. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Science and Industrial Policy Venture Capital' Once the tech cluster forms, these activities will become self-funding.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. or Euro-centric phenomenon. Happy Thanksgiving.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

These are investment vehicles in which central and local government agencies make investments that are combined with private venture capital and State-Owned Enterprises in areas of strategic importance. The result was that by default, private equity and venture capital were the de facto decision makers of U.S. In the U.S.

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