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

APRIL 5, 2017

Audience(s), Message, Media, Messenger. Select the media you want the message to be read/seen/heard on. These are very different audiences, each requires its own messages, media and messengers. Step 3: Media. Media means the type of communications media each audience member reads/listens to/watches.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We hired union laborers to do that. I hired a Director of Product Marketing who in his last company had ran its marketing and then went out into the field and became its national sales director. What’s your advice about hiring sales/marketing folks? (I The same was true for the Product Marketing group.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.

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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

While we were putting in the miles of fencing to keep them out, I bought much heavier weapons to deal with a charging 400-pound boar and hired an instructor to teach me how to safely use them. When I bought the ranch herds of wild boar still roamed the fields. Each time gun safety was an integral part of training with new weapons.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

While we were putting in the miles of fencing to keep them out, I bought much heavier weapons to deal with a charging 400-pound boar and hired an instructor to teach me how to safely use them. When I bought the ranch herds of wild boar still roamed the fields. Each time gun safety was an integral part of training with new weapons.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

The department had hired a recruiter and was interviewing candidates from other chip companies. I’ve been blogging, commenting, emailing, and all over social media searching for folks to buy in to my pitch, smart personalized web software (to aid pasive search -Dave winer calls it two way, and relevant ads).

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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. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Also the adage As hire As, Bs hire Cs—absolutely true—be careful of the company you keep, And what goes around comes around. 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.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

I personally sold the first big deals and hired the VP of sales who’s building the sales team in our New York office. Her inside sales team (Sales Development and Business Development reps) used email, phone, social media and Zoom for prospecting and generating leads. Where Are Your Biggest Business Deals? There’s a Pattern Here.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

And people would hire me to put on these events with the idea that if I captured enough rich people, that would do it. Everyone was in the media going, “Oh, that’s so exclusive. He never planned to start a company: I started … with this delusion that I would get to rich people. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How do they become present on new social media and communications channels? The company had hired a leading management consulting firm that helped them select 15 critical areas of change the Tsunami Initiative was tasked to work on. How do they bring on new supply chains? It meant pivoting an entire company – and its culture.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs). Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs). Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

And it hires very smart people from the best schools. BTW, by the standards mentioned in the Times article, the following people would never have been interviewed or hired at Google. Google is looking to hire workers. Reply Quote of the Day | Bronte Media , on April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm Said: [.] I love Google.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It got bigger by inventing new test and measurement equipment and it hired people who knew how to execute that strategy. Elephant Graveyard Reinvention of large companies, while making for great case studies are rare. For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static. Does the ecosystem go “Bang!&# ?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. Four-Phase Systems is hiring …”. Silicon Valley is an innovation cluster that makes hardware, software, biotech and semiconductors. Culture is the shared beliefs of others around you. Did we just hear this right?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. Four-Phase Systems is hiring …”. Silicon Valley is an innovation cluster that makes hardware, software, biotech and semiconductors. Culture is the shared beliefs of others around you. Did we just hear this right?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We’re glad your company hired a real petroleum engineer to come speak to us. During the question and answer session my heart was in my throat since like any good marketer, my depth of knowledge was no more than one level away from being a complete idiot. We hate when the sales and marketing types come down and try to get us to buy something.”

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