Steve Blank

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A Path to the Minimum Viable Product

Steve Blank

For software products, the channels are typically through the mobile app stores or directly over the Internet. Owners of the new Mac M1 laptops are taking advantage of a decade of Apple’s mobile chip development, which is finally robust enough to run the MacOS. Today, Roku has become an operating system embedded in other brands’ TVs.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Startups that win in the bubble will be those that get wide adoption (using freemium, viral growth, low costs, etc) and massive distribution (i.e. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 11 – Cyberwarfare –– Sumit Agarwal

Steve Blank

But in the private sector he’s done a number of amazing things; he headed up mobile at Google, then went back into the Pentagon where he was the youngest Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense ever in the Pentagon. Worse when it goes viral. He’s spent almost 20 years in the National Guard.