Steve Blank

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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

I had a better one when I came back from New York. I was in New York last week teaching my annual 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad class at the Columbia Business School. New York Startups. Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

and China ” New York Times, Jan. Tim Harford, “ The CubeSat Revolution Changing the Way We See the World ” BBC News, July 17, 2019. Thompson, “ Space as a War-Fighting Domain ” Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2018. Age of Great Power Competition: Space Race 2.0. Luke Harding, “ The Space Race is Back On—But Who Will Win?

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

Boards : The term “board” can mean two very different things in the commercial world – an Advisory Board versus a Board of Directors.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. At the time he was not only running GM but was a major Wall Street speculator (even on GM stock) and was big in the New York social scene. There’s the Alfred P.

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Why a Company Can’t “Be More Like a Startup”

Steve Blank

Today, New York City has 13,587 yellow-taxi medallions and more than 50,000 Uber and Lyft cars. In addition, some cities put an artificial limit on the number of taxi operators by requiring them to buy medallions and agree to a set of local regulations. PayPal – acquired by eBay three years after it was founded for $1.5

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Luckily Eric Ries was spending a few days in New York, so we sat down in the middle of Times Square and hashed this out.

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Rising out of the Crisis: Where to Find New Markets and Customers

Steve Blank

New York-based startup Katena Oncology discovered that a cancer detection tool under development could be adapted to test for coronavirus. Although the large firms made the headlines, startups also pivoted. Capture opportunities by building on or repurposing your start-up’s abilities.

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