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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

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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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

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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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. Sea Turtles and VPN – the connections to the rest of the world. like WeChat.).

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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. Sea Turtles and VPN – the connections to the rest of the world. like WeChat.).

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

The rest of the world had much, much less. That’s the world you’re graduating into – immersed in social media, with infinite facts and continuous news. And the feeling of validity that comes from hearing something from someone you know makes social media much more powerful than what you see on TV or read in a newspaper.

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The No Excuses Culture

Steve Blank

It drove me crazy when we failed to deliver a project for sales on time or we missed a media deadline. But the rest felt empowered and responsible. In addition to customer discovery, creating end user demand, and product strategy, Marketing also serves as a service organization to sales. A few became ex-employees.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 41: Chris Schroeder and Andy Cunningham

Steve Blank

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Keeping the interactive unit separate from the rest of the company helped, he said. What ended up happening, however, was we were eventually subsumed under the traditional media business.