Steve Blank

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

We’ve seen this effect in social media when it was people who were manipulating beliefs. I’ve lived through the revolutions in telecom, life sciences, social media, etc., We can’t predict where an AI with emergent behaviors may decide to take these conservations.) But that’s not all. With ChatGPT I might be seeing one more.

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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

She had an interesting insight: existing content/media companies were having the same problem as hardware companies that rarely made the leap to new platforms. And she had a model for a new media company for mobile and wearables. lots more women founders in media companies than you find in enterprise software companies.).

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Steve Blank

Perhaps instead of working for the latest social media or ecommerce company or in retail or travel or hospitality, you might want to make people live healthier, longer and more productive lives.

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The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Steve Blank

Some of these world-class innovators get recruited by large companies like professional athletes, with paychecks to match.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Without a clear explanation of why this had been done, startups, which were already being funded by ever-increasing pools of venture capital, abandoned cooperation with the Defense Department and focused on high returns on social media and commercial applications.

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

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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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

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

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