Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2012

Facebook and Social Media. Facebook has adroitly capitalized on market forces on a scale never seen in the history of commerce. 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. And who can blame them. A new car company?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance.

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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. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

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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

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. For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs.

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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 Filed under: Venture Capital. billion dollars while admitting it will have operating losses through the end of fiscal 2012.)

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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.

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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. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Lessons Learned.

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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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

NarrativeMind is developing tools that will optimize discovery and investigation of adversary communication trends on social media, allowing the U.S. In slides 6-9 they plotted all the potential adversary communication trends on social media problems, and in slide 7 overlaid that problem space with existing commercial solutions.

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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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. Air travel, media that conducts waves, velocity, acceleration.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I think he was saying that politicians and the media are trying to promote entreprenuership as the salvation of the nation, is that correct? Filed under: Customer Development « Requiem For A Roommate 2 Responses steve , on October 21, 2010 at 7:05 am Said: what did Carl say at 1:12 ? the video skipped or something?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Visionary CEOs have always been the face of their company, but today with social media, it happens faster with a much larger audience; boards now must consider what would happen to the valuation of the company without the founder. Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Not so much on the sinking venture, but seeing you gents in action, developing and selling blind to navigational course corrections. On a more serious note, any tips on attracting founders? Reply steveblank , on July 29, 2009 at 7:46 am Said: Mark, I got “lucky&# and worked with some incredibly persuasive sales people.

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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. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

And venture capital and entrepreneurship has made life even tougher for the modern corporation. Over the last 35 years venture capital has funded nimble new entrants (on a scale never imagined by Schumpeter ) who exist to exploit discontinuities in technology or customer behavior. Does the ecosystem go “Bang!&# ?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

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. It was, as he explained, the sum of their strategy and strategic thinking for online media. Are those my initials on the slide? Fast forward nine months.

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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. The problem is that our messaging on the home page shouts “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&#.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Writing, Social Media, Graphics, Editing content, research, etc. I keep an art easel in the closet at the office so the kids have something of their own when they come. We try to keep the families aware of what is going on and often ask for their involvement.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Reply Quote of the Day | Bronte Media , on April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm Said: [.] Reply Maurice Karnaugh , on April 7, 2009 at 6:57 pm Said: It seems to me that the most creative and motivated students will get excellent grades in subjects that interest them but sometimes mediocre grades in other subjects.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) Existing companies are starting to feel the pressures of new technologies and the massive wave of new entrants fueled by the explosion of investment from a recent form of financing – venture capital.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

To understand our potential markets, we started by analyzing the marketing literature from Cray Research then crisscrossed the country talking to prospective customers – scientists and researchers in advanced corporate R&D centers and universities – to understand their needs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Programs/applications can be games, social media, office applications, missile guidance systems, bitcoin mining, or even operating systems e.g. Linux, Windows, IOS. The opportunity is so large that there are hundreds of AI accelerator startups designing their own chips, funded by 10’s of billions of venture capital and private equity.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

These are investment vehicles in which central and local government agencies make investments that are combined with private venture capital and State-Owned Enterprises in areas of strategic importance. social media, ecommerce, gaming) instead of in hardware, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, transportation infrastructure, etc.

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