Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

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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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. To the military vehicle Program Manager?

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Social Media Customer Programming Video 132

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

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. Management 101. Adapt, adopt and extend is probably a better description. like WeChat.).

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. To the military vehicle Program Manager?

Social Media 120

Social Media Customer Programming Video 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The 8 teams spoke to 115 beneficiaries (users, program managers, etc.); 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.)” Team Presentations: Week 4. This team will be fun to watch.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The 8 teams spoke to 115 beneficiaries (users, program managers, etc.); 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.)” Team Presentations: Week 4. This team will be fun to watch.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

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. Management 101. Adapt, adopt and extend is probably a better description. like WeChat.).

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2020

They provide the software for freelancers and small businesses to manage clients and their business – proposals, billing, contracts, payments, project tracking, etc. I receive emails and texts, as well as social media posts daily, and it is inspiring,” Jill says. Our clients are loving the experience and are very grateful.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. States can utilize subversive and disruptive messaging on social media and other platforms to sow discord and confusion within an adversary’s borders. It’s incredibly slow, because of all the stakeholders.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. He runs H4X Labs.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

Audience(s), Message, Media, Messenger. Select the media you want the message to be read/seen/heard on. Or people inside companies with a specific title, like product or program managers, CIOs, etc? These are very different audiences, each requires its own messages, media and messengers. Step 3: Media.

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Marketing Audience Technical Review PR 310

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

He had teamed up with a former product manager at P&G to deliver seminars on just this subject. It was a management problem. We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Now with over 750 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) By the time they reach the top, they are excellent managers of processes and procedures needed to deliver a consistent and repeatable execution of the current core mission (and typically excellent political players as well.).

San Diego 142

San Diego Metrics Indonesia Silicon Valley 142

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

When I asked our trade show manager she looked at me like I was the house idiot and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to set up our trade show booth?” But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” This is a big idea.

Silicon Valley 259

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 259

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Our small training department had been without a manager for months and finding a replacement didn’t seem to be high on the VP of Sales list. Then it hit me – no one else wanted to be manager – what was the worst that could happen? What’s the Worst that Can Happen? All I had to do was ask.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review California 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to determine how to use data mining, machine learning, and data science to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media (think ISIS). Almost every military program has at least four customer segments: Concept Developers, Capability Managers, Program Managers, Users.

Lean 120

Lean Silicon Valley Social Media Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Comfort features evolved as well: climate control – first heat, later air-conditioning; and entertainment – AM radio, FM radio, 8-track tape, CD’s, and today streaming media. auto-throttle – to manage engine power in order to maintain a selected speed. In the last decade GPS-driven navigation systems began to appear.

Technical Review 292

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 292

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

Craig also co-founded Razorfish Studios, a media and entertainment company, producing books, films, TV shows, albums and websites. . there’s a big difference between creating things, managing things, and operating things. We were better at creating things and not so good at managing or operating them. …

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur IPO 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

— Stan was an account manager at Blackstone Computing when the company was reorganized under a new CEO. There’s all that structure and all these things that really didn’t play to my strengths. By being an entrepreneur I have the freedom to build things and do things that play to my strengths.

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Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur San Francisco 134

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

They manage this all with knowledge of the game they’re playing, but they don’t hype it, talk about it or fan the flames. But they don’t support his justification of the bubble valuations we are seeing for companies filing for IPO’s (Pandora Media just priced its IPO at $2.6 They know others will.

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Investment Bankers Valuation Stock Venture Capital 310

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

This week, our first team up was PersonalLibraries (the team that made software to help researchers manage, share and reference the thousands of papers in their personal libraries.) They met with their mentors, and refined their messaging pitch by attending a media training workshop one of our mentors held. The Nine Teams Present.

Cloud 228

Cloud Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development 228

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Prior to his public service, Javier spent 20+ years in investing, management, entrepreneurial and public policy, starting as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Booz, Allen and at Abbott Laboratories. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

— Stan was an account manager at Blackstone Computing when the company was reorganized under a new CEO. There’s all that structure and all these things that really didn’t play to my strengths. By being an entrepreneur I have the freedom to build things and do things that play to my strengths.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur San Francisco 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

I loved what he was working on (thanks to perspective in data management from my large company experience here—that prepared mind thing). Don’t be afraid to take a step down (Oracle was a $1 Million business, I had been marketing manager for a $100 Million business). Gravitate to what’s new. Build Your Skills Not Your Resume.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Chicago Cofounder 333

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

First, I got to meet the faculty in both electrical/computer engineering and management and share what I’ve learned about Lean and the Lean LaunchPad class. In their senior year all Air Force cadets on the electrical engineering track have a two-semester “Capstone” class project.

Silicon Valley 255

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. The problem is that our messaging on the home page shouts “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&#.

Silicon Valley 181

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

First, I got to meet the faculty in both electrical/computer engineering and management and share what I’ve learned about Lean and the Lean LaunchPad class. In their senior year all Air Force cadets on the electrical engineering track have a two-semester “Capstone” class project.

Silicon Valley 151

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 151

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

General managers of divisons are compensated on division P&L not long term innovation. You cannot say it is the people (owners, manager or workers). Steven Blank: Managers need to be more entrepreneurial. CEO’s and the executive staff are watching the corporate bottom line and earnings per share. The lesson stuck.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

Her inside sales team (Sales Development and Business Development reps) used email, phone, social media and Zoom for prospecting and generating leads. During the Covid pandemic, most of her engineering team worked remotely. At the same time, her account executives were able to use Zoom for sales calls and close and grow business virtually.

New York 333

New York Miami Silicon Valley Sales 333

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Now with over 660 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing ARCYBER and others to efficiently respond and mitigate threats posed by enemy messaging.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Now with over 660 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing ARCYBER and others to efficiently respond and mitigate threats posed by enemy messaging.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That’s why, just halfway through the class, they’ve already talked to 550 beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.). The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That’s why, just halfway through the class, they’ve already talked to 550 beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.). The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.”

Lean 253

Lean Eritrea Libya Silicon Valley 253

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors. More often than not, a founding CEO lacked the experience to do these things.

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