Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Today they released the first Startup Genome Report — a 67 page in-depth analysis on what makes early-stage Internet startups successful.

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Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 333

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

Institutional Investors 233

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Justice Department and 20 state Attorneys General brought suit again Microsoft for anticompetitive practices designed to maintain its monopoly in PC operating systems and internet browsers. The tech ecosystem got a rude awakening in May 1998 when the U.S. While tech hadn’t come to Washington, Washington came for the tech industry.

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Washington Government Marketing Silicon Valley 271

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. The slide below from the Zhen Fund shows the breadth of business coverage of each of the Chinese Internet incumbents. New Rules for China.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

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. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. The slide below from the Zhen Fund shows the breadth of business coverage of each of the Chinese Internet incumbents. New Rules for China.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

government (or with requests from their own government), a phone call to the right cloud provider or Internet service provider (ISP) could result in getting bad actors kicked off the Internet. In countries where technology companies are willing to cooperate with the U.S.

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Technology Russia Artificial Inteligence United States 307

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I was present at the creation of the first microprocessors, participated in the PC revolution, built video games, and shipped software on the first Internet browsers. Our better angels soared as printed books became the Internet of the Renaissance. I don’t have to explain the Internet to you. The same is true for the Internet.

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North Korea Social Media .Net Europe 252

Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc.

Silicon Valley 179

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review Lean 179

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Today, the Internet has eliminated most of those obstacles. How did they learn to do this rather than stay in their heads? When I was an entrepreneur a face-to-face meeting or a phone call was the only way to get advice. That was a barrier to many.

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Customer Lean Entrepreneur Internet 395

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

I thought about the common wisdom that only 20-year olds doing Internet startups could be agile. Looking at them I wondered if: 1) hard-core science and engineering projects could rapidly pivot, 2) if the Principal Investigators would simply “assign” the work to their graduate students.

Incubator 301

Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 301

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

We want to find someone who has a lot of consumer internet product experience as either product manager, founder, VP Product, etc. We think that our venture partner role is the most likely path to general partner.”.we we have a partner-track associates program. with 3-7 years of experience.”. “…we we do not even try to train new partners.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Technical Review Startup 332

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. The Internet May Liberate Us. The Internet May Kill Us.

Internet 295

Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 295

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

Microsoft had just released Internet Explorer 3 which for the first time was a credible contender. of “e” in the Epiphany corporate logo to the “e” in the Internet. Internet Explorer. With a massive leap of creativity we decided that it should it should have our company name and the letter “E” with a swoop over it.

SQL 282

SQL Naming Internet Software 282

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. Every startup wanted to believe they could get acquired like YouTube for $1.4

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2010

It was the Internet bubble and after almost three years our startup had found a business model and we were scaling revenue and headcount fast. However, the new CEO was as hungry to join a hot Internet startup and work with legendary VC and not miss the bubble, as we were in hiring him. Big Name CEO. We thought he’d be worth it.

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Founder Cofounder Salary Naming 275

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

While that’s great when you showed up in your horse and buggy, the strategy-to-tactic-to implementation lag is painful at Internet speeds. In the age of the Internet why do we need to get together in one room on a fixed schedule? Not Real-time. Startup board meetings occur every 4-6 weeks. The Wrong Structure. Rockefeller.

Silicon Valley 290

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 290

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

While that’s great when you showed up in your horse and buggy, the strategy-to-tactic-to implementation lag is painful at Internet speeds. In the age of the Internet why do we need to get together in one room on a fixed schedule? Not Real-time. Startup board meetings occur every 4-6 weeks. The Wrong Structure. Rockefeller.

Silicon Valley 258

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Magdalena was a pioneer in the commercialization of the Internet, helping move it out of the government and university domains and in establishing the infrastructure for e-commerce and financial transaction platforms. We went and teamed up with a company called UUNET (one of the first Internet companies). Steve : Why?

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Silicon Valley California Entrepreneur Cofounder 139

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

The Internet has created a series of new and innovative business models. While the Internet has enabled scalable Internet startups like Google and Facebook, it has also created a much, much larger class of web-based small businesses that can’t or won’t scale to a large company. The Web and Startups.

Hockey Stick 276

Hockey Stick Venture Capital Startup Cofounder 276

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Magdalena was a pioneer in the commercialization of the Internet, helping move it out of the government and university domains and in establishing the infrastructure for e-commerce and financial transaction platforms. We went and teamed up with a company called UUNET (one of the first Internet companies). Steve : Why?

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Silicon Valley California Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

Because Lean Startup methods, Crowdfunding, Amazon Web Services and the Internet that connects us all, is bringing the cost of failure to zero. . You and I know lots of people who made the time – sometimes from 9 pm to 2 am – to get started working on their dream. Chase that idea, stop hiding, carve out the time you need. …

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Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. The rising international competition in space and escalating potential for collisions that could knock out critical military and commercial satellites.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. The rising international competition in space and escalating potential for collisions that could knock out critical military and commercial satellites.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

. —– I’ve lived through several technology infrastructure waves; the Unix business, the first AI and VR waves in the 1980’s, the workstation wave, multimedia wave, the first internet wave. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle.

Artificial Inteligence 318

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

The major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform will hit in the next 8 years; 3) the economics of building Internet businesses has changed; 4) the markets are much bigger. Therefore Ben concludes that boom is coming…and do you want to miss it because it has the possibility of becoming a bubble?

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Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2010

I’m in a place with no cell or internet coverage. I’m off the web for the next week or so. Back blogging by the end of March. Filed under:

Internet 149

Internet Web 149

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The Internet e-commerce was really just getting going and I thought I would build (the business) up using the Internet and UPS, etc. …. She also sold direct to consumer, this was back in the ’70s when there was no Internet, but she did those small ads in the back of the New York Times. … .

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur New York Cofounder New York City 120

Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica has been starting her own Internet businesses and programming since middle school. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. I would never ever present anything that I didn’t think was “legendary.” Everything disappeared.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

From 2011 to 2015, Carmen was a member of Deloitte Federal Consulting serving as senior advisor and mentor to Deloitte’s flagship innovation program, GovLab, sponsoring research on Bitcoin, Millennials, and the impact of the Internet of Things on government. .

Wiki 120

Wiki Entrepreneur Cofounder Government 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the Internet was on fire people said, “How do I make some money off this Internet thing?” You’re going to spend a huge percentage of your time doing this, you’ve got to love what you do, you have to be good at it, and you have to be honest about both of those two things. .

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur IPO 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges. It sent a signal that there is an irrational demand for tech IPOs. Silicon Valley startups are falling over each other to file their S-1 documents to go public. billion at the end of the first day (on $58.9

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Later he would leave for a few years to start the Computing Directorate at the National Science Foundation , help spec what became the Internet and then come back and run Ardent’s engineering.) A few days later Gordon became a founder.

North Carolina 125

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., This first post will describe some of the structural problems companies have; follow-on posts will offer some solutions. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups.

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. Using this idea to differentiate themselves as the hot new Silicon Valley VCs, some of his former business school students made this phrase their rallying cry. Fast Followers – a better idea.

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Silicon Valley Differentiation United States Customer Development 317