Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Adapt, adopt and extend is probably a better description.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve been blogging, commenting, emailing, and all over social media searching for folks to buy in to my pitch, smart personalized web software (to aid pasive search -Dave winer calls it two way, and relevant ads). On a more serious note, any tips on attracting founders?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review California 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

and searching for what you’re great at, and meant to encourage women to go right through those walls. So I started an exec search firm as a creative way to look for a new startup. They would jump to my defense – and they report that the people who said this had never met me –it was just the “word on the street.” Insidious, yes?

Venture Capital 333

Venture Capital Silicon Valley Chicago Cofounder 333

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Even though they are focused on learning about the next part of the canvas, every team continues to tenaciously search for that fit. (If This creates cognitive dissonance for the teams – on purpose. If we would insist they do it, it would feel like extra assigned work. This week we are seeing the typical class distribution.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Even though they are focused on learning about the next part of the canvas, every team continues to tenaciously search for that fit. (If This creates cognitive dissonance for the teams – on purpose. If we would insist they do it, it would feel like extra assigned work. This week we are seeing the typical class distribution.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

Her inside sales team (Sales Development and Business Development reps) used email, phone, social media and Zoom for prospecting and generating leads. And in this phase, her focus as a CEO needed to change – from searching for product/market fit to driving exponential growth. There’s a Pattern Here.

New York 333

New York Miami Silicon Valley Sales 333

Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

For example, Uber took existing technology (smartphone app, drivers) but built a unique business model ( gig economy disrupting taxis) and the Russians used existing social media tools to wage political warfare. Today, disruption – Horizon 3 ideas – can be delivered as fast as Horizon 1 ideas. Innovate better than the disrupters.

China 295

China Government Russia Acquisition 295

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 14, 2015

… … You had to search for (a) job yourself. ” So it started with research to find out if somebody else was already working on it and I hadn’t searched hard enough. … (We used) social media (to create demand) … mostly Facebook. Nobody was going to give you your new job.

Rhode Island 120

Rhode Island Norway Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Programs/applications can be games, social media, office applications, missile guidance systems, bitcoin mining, or even operating systems e.g. Linux, Windows, IOS. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) – Good for algorithms; compression, video encoding, cryptocurrency, genomics, search. Needs specialists to program.

Artificial Inteligence 417

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417