Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?”. Today, New York City has 13,587 yellow-taxi medallions and more than 50,000 Uber and Lyft cars.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

This doesn’t mean just more technology stuff, though we’ll get that. Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. What’s happening is something more profound than a change in technology. The story to date is a familiar one.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. Innovation Clusters.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2020

New York-based startup Katena Oncology discovered that a cancer detection tool under development could be adapted to test for coronavirus. In order to test this application of our technology, we deployed our machines at the Hospital at the University of Geneva and see promising results!”.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

For example, to outflank a competitor who had faster products, Intel moved the conversation about microprocessors away from speed and technology to create a valued brand. Both Apple and Intel were selling complicated technology but did so by simplifying the message so it had broad emotional appeal.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

Countries or people you meet sometimes don’t like our policies on a given issue, but what they almost universally admire and aspire to is American entrepreneurship, innovation, education, science and technology, and volunteerism, philanthropy. Blinken practiced law in New York and Paris. Blinken explained that the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

My students from foreign countries beat the long odds to make it from their distant country to my classroom, while others were born in New York and flew here first class. Today Silicon Valley, New York and Boston, are magnets for entrepreneurs in the U.S. Were they not being nurtured?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were. Over the past decade, he has launched multiple businesses, including three technology companies. Nayeem Hussain. Nayeem Hussain , co-founder and CEO of Keen Home , creator of smart vents that create a more comfortable home. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. Fear of Failure.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Betsy Corcoran , co-founder and CEO of the education technology news site EdSurge. Betsy Corcoran was a science and technology journalist for many years, working at Scientific American , The Washington Post and Forbes. Betsy Corcoran. … . … No.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. Fear of Failure.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. viewed science and technology as a strategic asset. Building China’s Science and Technology infrastructure. Here’s how a national policy for science and technology emerged.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2012

This week I’m in New York teaching a 5-day version of my Lean LaunchPad class at Columbia University. Filed under: Customer Development , Technology. (Look at the first wave of the web/mobile/cloud startups that have done just that: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Match.com, Pandora, Zynga, WordPress, LinkedIn.). It’s your turn.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

I grew up in New York City and for a few years heaven on earth for me was going to Boy Scout camp in the summer near the Delaware River. Filed under: Technology. Technology' And it’s just going to get worse. The camp had all the summer adventures a city kid could imagine, hiking, fishing, canoeing, etc.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

Hard for parents with K through 12 students at home trying to keep up with remote learning, and hard for instructors trying to master new barely functional tools and technology while trying to keep students engaged gazing at them through Hollywood Squares -style boxes.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2012 NYU partnered with the City University of NY (CUNY) and Columbia University, and in early 2013 they won a grant from the National Science Foundation to build the Innovation Corps in New York City and jointly create the the NYC Regional Innovation Node (NYCRIN). Spend it Wisely. Student Impact.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Chris Shipley is executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, through which business, technology, policy and philanthropic leaders work together to identify and solve to some of the world’s biggest challenges. I know that there are a lot of … “fill in the blank” and technology, or “fill in the blank” and startups.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. New approaches to translational medicine have emerged. But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. viewed science and technology as a strategic asset. Building China’s Science and Technology infrastructure. Here’s how a national policy for science and technology emerged.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

I was in New York teaching at Columbia University this week and gave a few talks around town. My public talk at Columbia University was part of their Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Startup lecture series. I think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). Teaching In the Big Apple.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. NASA and the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) In the 1970’s/80’s NASA needed a common way to describe the maturity and state of flight readiness of their technology projects. We think we can do better. Some background.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

As immigrants their biggest dream was opening a small grocery store on the Lower East Side of New York City, which they did in 1939. Scalable startups in technology centers (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Bangalore, Israel, etc.) They didn’t aspire to open a chain of grocery stores, just to feed their family.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , special advisor on entrepreneurship to the President of Columbia University ; and Kathryn Minshew , co-founder of the popular online career platform TheMuse.com both joined me in Sirius’ New York studio and shared their version of being knocked down and coming back stronger. It’s a great thing for New York. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

This was a modern city in a hurry to make a first impression – think of what Rome looked like in the time of the empire or New York in the 1920’s – now it’s Beijing announcing that China has arrived. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. China Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

As CEO, Ryan has grown Qualtrics to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. ” I called this trade show company that was putting on this great marketing event in New York City. I borrowed my brother’s trade show booth and flew to New York. Fast-forward ten years.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank has spent 20+ years in technology companies and venture capital, working at Lucent , Sun Microsystems , Apple and NeXT. The other thing that we try to make everything that we do in and of (New York). Big companies don’t just come to universities and line up to (just) license technologies.

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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.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

As CEO, Ryan has grown Qualtrics to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. ” I called this trade show company that was putting on this great marketing event in New York City. I borrowed my brother’s trade show booth and flew to New York. Fast-forward ten years.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

I grew up in New York City and for a few years heaven on earth for me was going to Boy Scout camp in the summer near the Delaware River. Filed under: Technology. Technology' And it’s just going to get worse. The camp had all the summer adventures a city kid could imagine, hiking, fishing, canoeing, etc.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

But what I remind them is that great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.) There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. I love Google.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups – which because of geography or size of investment typically don’t have formal boards or directors – to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e. Silicon Valley, New York). Here’s how. better user growth.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Scalable startups in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Bangalore, Israel, etc.) Most grow through sustaining innovation , offering new products that are variants around their core products. Changes in customer tastes, new technologies, legislation, new competitors, etc.

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