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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

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. The convergence of digital trends along with the rise of China and globalization has upended the rules for almost every business in every corner of the globe.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. Are These Your Slides? I quickly leafed through them and replied, “Sure they’re our original slides.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

This week teams figured out how to measure mission achievement and success, and our advanced lectures were on activities, resources and partners. NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. See all the H4D posts here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

Create awareness for fundraising (VC, angels, corporate partners). 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. Step 3: Media. Step 1: Who’s the Audience(s)?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How do they become present on new social media and communications channels? How do they make these transitions without alienating and losing their existing customers, distribution channels and partners? Some of the teams even included some of their close partners. But often, no existing solution exists.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

They met with their mentors, and refined their messaging pitch by attending a media training workshop one of our mentors held. If you can’t see the slides above, click here. In interviewing biomed researchers, they found one unmet need: the ability to cite materials used in experiments.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

My two best partners went off to start Benchmark Capital, very successful to this day, so my firm was going to blow up. 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. But then, trouble.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2010

Students formed teams, came up with a business idea then talked to customers, vendors and sales channel partners to validate their business model. By getting out of the building on a team project, the class helped students viscerally understand that a startup is a search for a profitable business model. Guest Speakers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Their VC firm, In-Q-Tel , has been in business for 10 years, and like most VC firms they have an annual event where they show off their new portfolio companies to their limited partners and other VC partners. Air travel, media that conducts waves, velocity, acceleration. And I could have sworn they all had the same badge.) .&#

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

The Department of Defense has expanded their use of Hacking for Defense to include a classified version , and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal Hacking for Defense courses. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) We Changed Our Mind In 1966, 10 years after Hewlett’s memo, Hewlett Packard’s revenue and headcount had grown ten fold; $200 million and 11,000 employees – all from test and measurement equipment. Does the ecosystem go “Bang!&# ?

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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. 4. Establishing an outpost enables innovation but does not constitute innovation.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

No university has said, “We should design the institution to have a bigger impact using academic work and join up with outside entities and organizations and partners to do that.” Getting businesses online, giving them social media skills, coaching on the canvas, as a critical thing they were doing for Main Street businesses.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). Writing, Social Media, Graphics, Editing content, research, etc. Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. MovieLabs is researching how to redefine the movie experience, advance content distribution, and understand media consumers. Ownership of movies for collectors, when it was physical media, meant something. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I think what we’re going end up with is the following: Official communication, like a video of Biden or Trump is eventually going to have enough watermarking and fingerprinting technology, that the major social media platforms will be able to verify authenticity. That is fine at a limited scale, when you have a small number of partners.

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