Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Strategy is Not a To Do List, It Drives a To Do List It took me awhile, but I began to realize that the strategic part of my job was to recognize that (in today’s jargon) we were still searching for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Business Model Product Development Early Stage Customer Development 305

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

They outlined their retail channel and PR strategy and told me about the type of consultants they wanted to hire. Hiring PR Agencies. That’s smart I thought, a real clear charter for PR. At this moment you know more about your customers than any PR agency will. The same is true for hiring the PR agency.

PR 314

PR China Channel Lean 314

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Searching for a business model in a new industry, and with the prescient vision that a car company should offer multiple brands, that year he bought three other small car companies — Cadillac, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac — and merged them with Buick, renaming the combined company General Motors.

Michigan 268

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

They outlined their retail channel and PR strategy and told me about the type of consultants they wanted to hire. Hiring PR Agencies. That’s smart I thought, a real clear charter for PR. At this moment you know more about your customers than any PR agency will. The same is true for hiring the PR agency.

PR 206

PR China Channel Lean 206

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

If you’re constantly correlating data and searching for patterns, all intelligence if properly integrated will give you insight. Now as VP of Marketing, I could have sat back and let my PR agency handle the press. The head of the PR agency agreed that we would work together as a team. “Hey, we can make these surveys shorter.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 124

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2010

First, (in today’s jargon) we were still searching for a scalable and repeatable business model. My job was to test our hypotheses about who were potential customers, what problems they had and what their needs were.

Customer Development 307

Customer Development Singapore Channel PR 307