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.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 9, 2013
And I think of it as a failure of Silicon Valley startups (and occasionally SV VCs who lack an understanding of enterprise purchasing) to assume you don’t need a sales process and sales reps. Suspects & prospects are often in search of success stories from their peers to hear how they’re improving internal operations.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 11, 2014
” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. But I still believe Sean Ellis was right.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams, Not Hyperloops - crowdspring.co/188qC9v. Chicago can be better than Silicon Valley (when it comes to promoting women entrepreneurs) | by Sharon Schneider - crowdspring.co/18J09d4. Google’s Broken Promises & Who’s Running The Search Engine? |
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 24, 2013
Key Factors to Effective Competitive Analysis as a Small Business | Search Engine Watch – [link]. What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley | by Om Malik – [link]. “Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age.” – [link].
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. We don’t need to know all this stuff.”
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. Days of Futures Past for Tesla.
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