Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We came to the Lean LaunchPad class wanting to build a mobile/web research management system aimed at helping qualitative researchers better manage the media they captured in the field. Technology in search of a market. By this point, we were a technology in search of a market…not a good place to be. Here’s how that happened.

Lean 315

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

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. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. like WeChat.).

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

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. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. This may work in stable markets and technologies. As articulated in the classic Clayton Christensen book The Innovators Dilemma , in industries with rapid technology or market shifts, disruption cannot be ignored.).

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. This may work in stable markets and technologies. As articulated in the classic Clayton Christensen book The Innovators Dilemma , in industries with rapid technology or market shifts, disruption cannot be ignored.).

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 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. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. like WeChat.).

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% at United Technologies and 30% at Siemens. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

Institutional Investors 233

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Early entrants get sold to corporate acquirers at inflated prices for their teams, their technology, and their tools. . Producers of the technology shake out or fail.

Artificial Inteligence 318

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2012

Facebook and Social Media. Today, social media startups can return 100’s of millions or even billions in less than 3 years. Instead, the investor money is moving to social media. New VC’s, focused on both the early and late stage of social media have transformed the VC landscape. And who can blame them.

Silicon Valley 336

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Social Media Media 336

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I love technology. And I’ve watched how, in a blink of an eye, technology went from products used by the very few, to ending up in the pockets of billions, bringing social change and corporate disruption. That’s the world you’re graduating into – immersed in social media, with infinite facts and continuous news.

North Korea 252

North Korea Social Media .Net Europe 252

Steve Blank

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. He runs H4X Labs.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. He was the CEO of two startups.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 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

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 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Chris Schroeder is an American entrepreneur, advisor and investor in interactive technologies and social communications. . Chris Schroeder. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

Washington 285

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 285

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. Both Apple and Intel were selling complicated technology but did so by simplifying the message so it had broad emotional appeal.

Marketing 310

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. Filed under: Technology. Technology' Lessons Learned.

Security 258

Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 258

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Early entrants get sold to corporate acquirers at inflated prices for their teams, their technology, and their tools. . Producers of the technology shake out or fail.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 120

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.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

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. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. The Sharp End of the Stick? It became [.]

Silicon Valley 259

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 259

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Worry about the sales results.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

MBA or Domain Expert Years later when I was running marketing departments I came up with a heuristic that replicated my own hire: in a technology company it’s usually better to train a domain expert to become a marketer than to train an MBA to become a domain expert. Thanks Steve!

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review California 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

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. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I wonder what would have happened if that guy didn’t steal your slides… Reply Mark Essel , on December 7, 2009 at 6:44 am Said: We’re in midst of finding the best service/market harmony at Victus Media. Perfect timing on sharing this pearl Steve. For us stealing a slide deck would serve a competitor very little.

Silicon Valley 225

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

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.) Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Marketing , Technology. Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan Marketing Technology' Manufacturers can downgrade your product as well as upgrade it.

Product 335

Product Cloud Software Engineer 335

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.

Silicon Valley 195

Silicon Valley California Vertical Customer Development 195

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. Filed under: Technology. Technology' Lessons Learned.

Security 152

Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 152

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

universities labs are being turned into commercial products and life saving drugs and devices thanks to an act of Congress – and the efforts of technology transfer offices in schools like Stanford and Columbia. Orin Herskowitz , executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures. Orin Herskowitz.

Government 120

Government Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Chris Schroeder is an American entrepreneur, advisor and investor in interactive technologies and social communications. . Chris Schroeder. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

Washington 120

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Craig Kanarick ’s career has integrated digital technology, design and strategy. Drew Silverstein. Craig Kanarick , founder of the indie food site Mouth. Craig Kanarick. He founded Mouth in 2012.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur IPO 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. Technology Cycles Measured in Years. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

In the DOD/IC innovation is often more technology, more planes, more aircraft carriers, more satellites, etc. It is this group, challenging the dogma of the existing programs, who will come up with the disruptive/asymmetric offset technologies and strategies. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

San Diego 142

San Diego Metrics Indonesia Silicon Valley 142

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

My esteemed colleague Ben Horowitz essentially makes four arguments : 1) look at how relatively cheap Apple, Google and Amazon stock is compared to their growth; 2) Major technology cycles tend to be around 25 years long with the bulk of the purchases occurring in the last five-to-ten years. The Shills are the middlemen in a bubble.

Investment Bankers 310

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology. The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps. Team Pause.

Lean 299

Lean Technology Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property 299

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 the 21 st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs. What’s holding large companies back?

Architecture 227

Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227