Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. The result?

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

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

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

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. Resource pivots.

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Small Business Jordan Green Social Media 434

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. . He was the CEO of two startups.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

This knowledge will help the students understand the overall environment that their Mission Model Canvas is operating in. Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. We posted the slides here and more important, an annotated narrative for each of the slides here. Narrative Mind.

Social Media 132

Social Media Customer Programming Video 132

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

This knowledge will help the students understand the overall environment that their Mission Model Canvas is operating in. Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. We posted the slides here and more important, an annotated narrative for each of the slides, here. Narrative Mind.

Social Media 120

Social Media Customer Programming Video 120

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

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

That’s the world you’re graduating into – immersed in social media, with infinite facts and continuous news. But ultimately, governments and companies figured out how to master the new technology and individuals lost, as the power of the state, and power of profit, controlled the new media. The same is true for the Internet.

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North Korea Social Media .Net Europe 252

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Apple owned 0%.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

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. In contrast, startups operate with speed and urgency, making decisions with incomplete information. What’s holding large companies back?

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Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

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. In crafting your messages, remember that all messages operate in a context that may have an expiration date. Step 3: Media.

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Marketing Audience Technical Review PR 310

Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

The class consists of basic networking and administration, network mapping, remote exploits, denial of service, web vulnerabilities, social engineering, password vulnerabilities, wireless network exploitation, persistence, digital media analysis, and cyber mission operations. Lessons Learned. The web is not a benign environment.

Security 258

Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 258

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered. While the U.S.

Silicon Valley 255

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 255

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20th century counterparts did. Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

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

MAY 13, 2013

The class consists of basic networking and administration, network mapping, remote exploits, denial of service, web vulnerabilities, social engineering, password vulnerabilities, wireless network exploitation, persistence, digital media analysis, and cyber mission operations. Lessons Learned. The web is not a benign environment.

Security 152

Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 152

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered. While the U.S.

Silicon Valley 151

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 151

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.) One of the great innovations of the 21 st century are products that are cloud-connected and update and improve automatically. If usability and functionality was a goal, then the new version was a step backwards.

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Product Cloud Software Engineer 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

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 billion dollars while admitting it will have operating losses through the end of fiscal 2012.)

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Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 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.

Social Media 134

Social Media Networking Naming Aggregator 134

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 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.

Social Media 120

Social Media Networking Naming Aggregator 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. Core Values Even after we had Mission and Intent down pat, one of the things that still drove me crazy was when we failed to deliver a project for sales on time or we missed a media deadline, everyone in my department had an excuse.

Silicon Valley 259

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 259

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

We brought in all operating guys—all had done startups, all had technical backgrounds. 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. That might be neat. But I couldn’t do it.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Chicago Cofounder 333

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. The downside of glass cockpits and cockpit automation means that pilots no longer actively operating the aircraft but instead monitor it.

Technical Review 292

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 292

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How do they become present on new social media and communications channels? And how do they motivate their most important asset – their people – to operate with speed, urgency, and passion? How do they convert existing manufacturing plants (and their workforce) for a completely new set of technologies?

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Framework Distribution Channel Leadership 389

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. … The tactics you can use to create demand for a new product differ significantly when you operate in a new vs. existing market. The first is Dave McC… Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

Silicon Valley 181

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

For example, Uber took existing technology (smartphone app, drivers) but built a unique business model ( gig economy disrupting taxis) and the Russians used existing social media tools to wage political warfare. This can be a contract with a single startup or a broader net to incentivize many. For example, Google buying Android.

China 295

China Government Russia Acquisition 295

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Jeff Decker is a social science researcher at Stanford.

Southern California 163

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 163

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. This week the team worked to understand a day-in-the-life of a Forward Operating Base (FOB) documenting the roles of the captain, lieutenant and a private on a guard tower (slides 5 and 6).

San Diego 120

San Diego Lean Acquisition Iraq 120

Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. This week the team worked to understand a day-in-the-life of a Forward Operating Base (FOB) documenting the roles of the captain, lieutenant and a private on a guard tower (slides 5 and 6).

San Diego 135

San Diego Lean Iraq Acquisition 135

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions.

Silicon Valley 182

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

For example, one of Verizon’s strategic innovation goals for its Silicon Valley organization is to create disruptive solutions (technologies and business models) to monetize the digital media accessed by its subscribers on their mobile devices. W hat is our company’s strategy for successfully integrating an Innovation Outpost?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. This can improve indications and warnings for military operations and active cyber defense.

Artificial Inteligence 417

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) and reorganized into operating divisions (by product, territory, brand, etc.), His insights about how large companies are using the Valley is the core of this series of four blog posts.

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