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New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media.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 13, 2013

In the last 20 years 3 billion people have gained access to the web. The web is not a benign environment. Intellectual property stolen, customer data hacked, funds illegally transferred, goods stolen, can damage a company and put them out of business. I think we’re missing something. Lessons Learned.

Security 258

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

In the last 20 years 3 billion people have gained access to the web. The web is not a benign environment. Intellectual property stolen, customer data hacked, funds illegally transferred, goods stolen, can damage a company and put them out of business. I think we’re missing something. Lessons Learned.

Security 152

Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 152

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2009

We’re a web startup, all our customers are on the web. Web startups are at real disadvantage here as founders may confuse web metrics, A/B testing and on-line surveys as the entirety of first-hand knowledge – for most web business models they are not. Continual Data Flow. compete.com, Alexa, etc.,)

Metrics 239

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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. It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone.

Silicon Valley 225

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

It surely lifted my spirits once again in my quest to seek funding from venture capitalists and to keep silencing my critics and proving them that i can achieve my milestones and goals in my very ambitious web application. BTW, I personally would _never_ “find&# a founder over the web. Thanks Steve!

Silicon Valley 120

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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.) Turning off the Web browser when driving? One of the great innovations of the 21 st century are products that are cloud-connected and update and improve automatically. Adding speed limits? Acceleration limits?

Product 335

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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 Do the new wave of social/web/mobile/cloud companies going public have valuations which exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin? today and in the foreseeable future.).

Investment Bankers 310

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

The class consisted 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.

Silicon Valley 255

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 255

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

Silicon Valley 259

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 259

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. Most companies were buying Amazon Web Services and were looking for value-added services that simplified their cloud activities. If you can’t see the slides above, click here.

Cloud 228

Cloud Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development 228

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version. Me –“That’s a great hypothesis, do customers tell you that they’d buy your version if it was cheaper or on the web? We’re about to ship next week.”

Silicon Valley 181

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

The class consisted 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.

Silicon Valley 151

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 151

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2010

Since I did not select the guest speakers, the course turned into a continual improv session as I tried to match my lectures to the unpredictable variety of industries (biotech, enterprise software, video games, media, web 2.0, and different life cycle stages of the guest speakers’ companies (startup to 20+billion.). Guest Speakers.

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley Business Model Customer Development Engineer 126

Steve Blank

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. Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997.

Small Business Administration 120

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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. We put (these inventions and patents) out on the web or we contact companies etc. Here’s the description, is that what you mean by market?

Government 120

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

For example, Uber took existing technology (smartphone app, drivers) but built a unique business model ( gig economy disrupting taxis) and the Russians used existing social media tools to wage political warfare. Successful examples, Apple and the iPhone, Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Startups are born betting it all.

China 295

China Government Russia Acquisition 295

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

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. We created an additional Spring section of the class with a focus on commercializing inventions from Stanford’s scientists and engineers.

Lean 299

Lean Technology Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property 299

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

My daughter, now 14, has her own company, doing web design and PHP and CSS and who knows what else. Writing, Social Media, Graphics, Editing content, research, etc. When they went to school, I went back to the office, starting an editorial services company in Shanghai. Now they’re even older.

Entrepreneur 276

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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. There is no one thing to say, is this authentic?

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