Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. 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. These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2020

I receive emails and texts, as well as social media posts daily, and it is inspiring,” Jill says. The menu is posted on social media and on their website ; customers pay their invoice online; and the meal kits are available to be picked up at their commercial kitchen or delivered for a small fee. Create an MVP or MVS to start.

Small Business 434

Small Business Jordan Green Social Media 434

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. business models. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.). like WeChat.).

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. During Jeff Immelt’s tenure GE’s stock-market value fell by about half. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. So what happened? In fact, what happened is activist investors.

Institutional Investors 233

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

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. Given the closed market to U.S.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

This week the teams turned the corner on understanding beneficiaries and finding product/market fit. The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. We just held our fourth week of the Hacking for Defense class. Team Presentations: Week 4.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

This week the teams turned the corner on understanding beneficiaries and finding product/market fit. The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. We just held our fourth week of the Hacking for Defense class. Team Presentations: Week 4.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

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. . It included things like advertising, marketing analytics, cyber security.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2012

Facebook and Social Media. Facebook has adroitly capitalized on market forces on a scale never seen in the history of commerce. For the first time, startups can today think about a Total Available Market in the billions of users (smart phones, tablets, PC’s, etc.) Instead, the investor money is moving to social media.

Silicon Valley 336

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Social Media Media 336

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2017

When I took the job of VP of Marketing in a company emerging from bankruptcy, excuses seemed to be our main product. In addition to customer discovery, creating end user demand, and product strategy, Marketing also serves as a service organization to sales. Each marketing group, (product marketing, marcom, trade shows, etc.)

Bankruptcy 371

Bankruptcy Sales Channel Restful 371

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. He was now CEO of a new company in our market.

Silicon Valley 225

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

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. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

Social Media 132

Social Media Customer Programming Video 132

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

At the same time we were educating the press , we began to educate our own marketing department about what exactly we were supposed to be doing inside the company. During the first few weeks I asked each of my department heads what they did for marketing and the company. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

Silicon Valley 259

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 259

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. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

Social Media 120

Social Media Customer Programming Video 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

They need to understand product market fit: why some ideas will get traction, others won’t. States can utilize subversive and disruptive messaging on social media and other platforms to sow discord and confusion within an adversary’s borders. Good champions need to be mediators, buffers between technologists and soldiers.

Technical Review 322

Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 322

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Andy Cunningham is the founder and president of Cunningham Collective , a brand strategy firm dedicated to bringing innovation to market. That’s where marketing comes into play.

Washington 285

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 285

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. Given the closed market to U.S.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Maybe It’s Me When I got to the SuperMac, our Marketing Communications group told me about our “award-winning&# retail packaging for our graphics boards. Her packaging class was so good that we sent every new marketer at SuperMac to take it. Yet when I saw our retail package, I was confused. Worry about the sales results.

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Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. The technology’s broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven.

Artificial Inteligence 318

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

What’s Marketing? But the one group that had me stumped was something called “marketing.&# &# Explain it to me again,&# I’d ask. One day I heard there was an opening in the marketing department for a product marketing manager for the Z-8000 peripheral chips. In reality it would be another 20 years.)

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review California 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. They’re better than large companies at identifying customer needs/problems and finding product/market fit by pivoting rapidly. What’s holding large companies back?

Architecture 227

Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Andy Cunningham is the founder and president of Cunningham Collective , a brand strategy firm dedicated to bringing innovation to market. That’s where marketing comes into play.

Washington 120

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

So Happy New Year to my 100,000-plus monthly readers throughout the world, and to many more who read my posts via some of the most important media in the startup/tech/entrepreneurship world, in more languages and places than I can keep track of. Now I’ve had days with 20 viewers per minute. Now Hear This.

Silicon Valley 195

Silicon Valley California Vertical Customer Development 195

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

For software, gone are the days of having to buy a new version of physical media (disks or CD’s.) Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Marketing , Technology. Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan Marketing Technology' Manufacturers can downgrade your product as well as upgrade it.

Product 335

Product Cloud Software Engineer 335

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2016

Slides 6 and 7 use the Value Proposition canvas to provide a deeper understanding of product/market fit. Slides 6 – 8 use the Value Proposition canvas to provide a deeper understanding of product/market fit. Slides 4-7 clearly show that solutions in the DOD are always a multi-sided market. in the Department of Defense.

Lean 120

Lean Silicon Valley Social Media Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. The technology’s broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

we held a Customer Discovery workshop, we started streaming the class live to DOD/IC sponsors and other educators, our advanced lecture was on Product/Market fit for the DOD/IC and we watched as the students solved their customer discovery obstacles and started getting closer to their customers. This post is a continuation of the series.

Social Media 134

Social Media Networking Naming Aggregator 134

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. Previously, at Blackstone Computing, a computing and IT consulting company for scientists, Gloss led the sales initiative that launched the company in the life sciences market. You have to disprove the naysayers.

Cofounder 134

Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur San Francisco 134

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber , Zenefits , Tanium , Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in the news – and not in a good way. This era was a “buyer’s market” – there were more good companies looking to get funded than there were VCs. And while new markets were created (i.e. Board Control.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Customer Development suggests that founders have continual and timely customer, channel and market information. Customer Development proposes that the best way to get customer data is through personal observation and experience—getting out from behind your desk and getting up close and personal with customers, competitors, and the market.

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Metrics Customer Customer Development Lean 239

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. They know nothing about real estate, financial markets or tech stocks, but they don’t want to miss the &# investment opportunity of a lifetime&#.

Investment Bankers 310

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

we held a Customer Discovery workshop, we started streaming the class live to DOD/IC sponsors and other educators, our advanced lecture was on Product/Market fit for the DOD/IC and we watched as the students solved their customer discovery obstacles and started getting closer to their customers. This post is a continuation of the series.

Social Media 120

Social Media Networking Naming Aggregator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. In slide 5 they broadly outlined mission achievement for three private sector markets. NarrativeMind further refined their Minimal Viable Product to product/market fit in Slides 11-16.

San Diego 142

San Diego Metrics Indonesia Silicon Valley 142

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. Previously, at Blackstone Computing, a computing and IT consulting company for scientists, Gloss led the sales initiative that launched the company in the life sciences market. You have to disprove the naysayers.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur San Francisco 120