Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2

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JUNE 8, 2021

Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Joe Felter , retired Army Colonel; and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania; and William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.

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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. It’s just a story about what happened to me.

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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.

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JUNE 12, 2020

Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Joe Felter retired Army Colonel and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Steve was CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios.

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APRIL 9, 2009

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. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Luckily (or maybe because we were in Silicon Valley where there was a domain expert for everything) there was a very smart consultant in the retail computer space, Seymour Merrin, who preached about the importance of packaging. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Worry about the sales results.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve been blogging, commenting, emailing, and all over social media searching for folks to buy in to my pitch, smart personalized web software (to aid pasive search -Dave winer calls it two way, and relevant ads). Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

During her career she made a big point of not telling you: she was one of the first women Venture Capitalist’s in Silicon Valley (along with M.J. When I was where you are, 36 years ago (can ya believe it) I didn’t have a plan—but I did have an aspiration: I wanted to go to Silicon Valley and I wanted to work in startups.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Not just in the military, but also in Silicon Valley, where it dooms otherwise successful companies. States can utilize subversive and disruptive messaging on social media and other platforms to sow discord and confusion within an adversary’s borders. The third is a focus on technology as opposed to transfer.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Andy came to Silicon Valley in 1983 to work for Regis McKenna and help Steve Jobs launch the Macintosh. Chris Schroeder. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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APRIL 29, 2013

After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley. Secret History.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. They came together over a personal pain – the inability to afford a house in Silicon Valley. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle. Homeslice had a great journey.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The Churchill Club , Silicon Valley’s largest public affairs organization, invited Carl Schramm , president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation and I to talk about entrepreneurship. I think he was saying that politicians and the media are trying to promote entreprenuership as the salvation of the nation, is that correct?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

He learned, too, that building a company outside a major startup ecosystem like Silicon Valley doesn’t have to limit a founder’s horizons: A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, will spend their time thinking too small. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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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.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

He learned, too, that building a company outside a major startup ecosystem like Silicon Valley doesn’t have to limit a founder’s horizons: A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, will spend their time thinking too small. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley. Secret History.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve spent my life at the center of innovation in Silicon Valley – doing eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching others innovation and entrepreneurship. That’s the world you’re graduating into – immersed in social media, with infinite facts and continuous news. I love technology.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. The teaching team consisted of: Pete Newell is a retired Army Colonel currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the National Defense University’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy and CEO of BMNT.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

I was positioning the company as the second coming of the video games businesses at the intersection of “ Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley.” We were sitting in the conference room of a large well-respected media firm when their CEO breezed in to give us an overview of who they were and how forward thinking their firm was.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. So this post is how I came to write “The Secret History of Silicon Valley&#. (I’ll Air travel, media that conducts waves, velocity, acceleration. So here it is in five parts.

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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 came to Silicon Valley in 1983 to work for Regis McKenna and help Steve Jobs launch the Macintosh. Chris Schroeder. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. Craig also co-founded Razorfish Studios, a media and entertainment company, producing books, films, TV shows, albums and websites. .

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The problem is that our messaging on the home page shouts “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&#. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2010

The first time I taught the Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship class, a quarter of the class were foreign students in a special engineering-entrepreneurship program where they took one entrepreneurship class each quarter at Stanford while working full time in technology startups in Silicon Valley. Guest Speakers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. They came together over a personal pain – the inability to afford a house in Silicon Valley. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle. Homeslice had a great journey.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to determine how to use data mining, machine learning, and data science to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media (think ISIS). Another source of unexpected support for the teams was from the Secretary of Defense’s DIUx Silicon Valley Innovation Outpost.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

But one more question about your “lessons learned&# , as the option is not there: what happens when: i) the founder is still around ii) you’ve got a business in the middle of a huge transition (think media in present times) and iii) you’ve also got the “new guys with the fresh vision&# on the management team.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

With a great assist from the State Departments innovation outpost in Silicon Valley.) NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. Note that they plan a trip to San Diego to visit the customer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. Besides myself, the teaching team includes Jeremy Weinstein , former deputy to the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. Besides myself, the teaching team includes Jeremy Weinstein , former deputy to the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” Writing, Social Media, Graphics, Editing content, research, etc. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. sigh* It’s a sad thing.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

Everyone was in the media going, “Oh, that’s so exclusive. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. They haven’t even got a phone number.” ” We forgot to put it on there! …No Want to be a guest on the show?

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MARCH 29, 2016

He also co-founded three companies: a broadcasting network, Air America Media, a solar energy company, Atenergy and a branding agency, Brand Maestro. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. Javier explained how the SBA helps drive entrepreneurship in the U.S.:

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In addition, Orin has served on boards or as the Principal Investigator for the NYC Media Lab , PowerBridgeNY , and the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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