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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

We’ve seen this effect in social media when it was people who were manipulating beliefs. Over the last 50 years I’ve been lucky enough to have been present at the creation of the first microprocessors, the first personal computers, and the first enterprise web applications. But that’s not all.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

The Chinese Social Media Landscape diagram below from Resonance does a great job of illustrating the players in the Chinese market. They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. web site, they create another 100,000 VPN users. Unlike U.S.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

The Chinese Social Media Landscape diagram below from Resonance does a great job of illustrating the players in the Chinese market. They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. web site, they create another 100,000 VPN users. Unlike U.S.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web.

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

They had reinvented a traditional print media category onto web and mobile devices for a new generation of users who were no longer buying magazines but reading online. Equally important their VP of Marketing had brilliantly executed a stream of social media campaigns (Facebook likes and partnerships, email campaigns, etc.)

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Worry about the sales results.

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Building a Company with Customer Data – Why Metrics Are Not Enough

Steve Blank

We’re a web startup, all our customers are on the web. Web startups are at real disadvantage here as founders may confuse web metrics, A/B testing and on-line surveys as the entirety of first-hand knowledge – for most web business models they are not. Continual Data Flow. compete.com, Alexa, etc.,)

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