Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

The SCC had been designed into the Mac and became the hardware which drove all the serial communications as well as the AppleTalk network which allowed Macs to share printers and files. The field service guy I had sold the chip to was Burrell Smith who had designed the Mac hardware. Your board nods sagely at your target customer list.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

Now I knew that it began in the early days of World War II as a crash program to reduce the losses of bombers to the German air defense network. My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave. Electronic warfare and signals intelligence in the U.S. started with Fred Terman and the Harvard Radio Research Lab.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Terman was the ultimate networking machine for Stanford and its military contracts. It’s amazing this guy ever slept.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Indeed, what Joby ultimately envisions is a new human mobility network that takes short-hop transit from 2D to 3D. We have vertical liftoff!

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

First Angel Network (Halifax). Wilmington Investor Network (NC). Others were able to provide additional data for one or more business verticals. In 2012 seven of the eight groups from California, Boston and New York were above the median of all groups. Alliance of Angels (Seattle). BELLE Capital (Michigan). Median: 2.75.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references. Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.? All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date. Thanks for sharing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Network with all the finalists from 11 am to 1:30 pm on Monday, March 12, at SXSW Accelerator Demo Day , at the Hilton Austin, Salon C. Who is your team looking to network with at SXSW 2018? We’re also keen to network with investors and engineers in environmental and health technology. I attended in 2007.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

Also, are you available for talks at a Silicon Valley networking group for job seekers. There is talk about trying to make a “vision&# into a non-profit. Kind of interesting in that the work is all volunteer and the volunteers are job seekers so attrition rates are high.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

In summary, the Customer Development process is there as a tool for those who feel that’s it’s improvement over having no roadmap.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

On first glance it appears as if they are spending to much energy in the vertical portion of the jump, relative to the horizontal portion. But I always had thought the bat and moth thing was incredibly cool, and it answered a question I had never even asked: where is all this coming from?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. Texas exports more than California and New York combined. Only California and New York have more. Digital and technology startups are global from day one.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like. And even if you don’t win, participation in the event itself can open up your network and lead to possible future possibilities.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The arc converter basically used the negative resistance of the an electric arc to cancel the positive resistance of an LC network thereby causing it to oscillate in a pure narrow-band CW frequency (aka Q-tuning).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. I pitched at ArcView (cannabis investor network) recently in Santa Monica. Previously, I went through the Keiretsu Forum (largest angel investor network). Plants love it.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. Like Cornershop the grocery side: we thought grocery is a great vertical for us to go after, and it’s there in Latin America. And that is a great entrepreneurial setup. That’s data.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. Netflix is a great example.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Virtualitics uses patented technology, based on a decade of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The cornerstone feature of VIP 2020 is its “Network Graph” package. Department of Defense, Nestle and University of Southern California.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. Peter, Max, Luke Nosek , and I held an off-site at my grandparents’ house in Gualala, California, to figure this out.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

Selected startups pitch on the Startup stage as part of their Startup Pack, judged by a panel of investors & leaders for each vertical. The best of each vertical is automatically entered into the final pitchoff for the Innovation of Things Award on the afternoon of May 17th. A previous winner is Distrix Networks.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Originally trained in transactional entertainment law and the representation of above-line talent, Lee worked with a number of well-known writer-director-producers in both traditional studio/network deals and in arranging non-studio financing for independent film production including such classics as Bladerunner. in History from UCLA.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. More than 90% of Japanese mobile subscribers are on 3G networks (vs. China’s leading social network (Tencent, who’s product is QQ) already does more than $1 billion in revenue. All have been fascinating.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2019

5G is the latest iteration of cellular technology, engineered to exponentially increase the speed (up to 100 times current levels ) and responsiveness of wireless networks. It will also facilitate a massive increase in the amount of data transmitted over these networks. billion people are set to have access to 5G networks?—?a

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Before leaving California, the engineers gave me a course in this specialized receiver design. As a going away gift my roommates got me a joke disguise kit with a fake nose, glasses and mustache. But when the targets lit up, the music and chatter would stop, and the communications would get very professional.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

So at times multiple ELINT planes would fly on a mission – one to run at the Soviet border appearing to attack, the other to pick up the signals from the air defense network as it responded to the intrusion. Keep in mind that 32 of these planes were shot down in the Cold War.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

To protect their country, the Soviets were building an air defense network to warn, track and destroy these attacking bombers. ——– The Korean War catapulted Stanford University’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) into a major player in electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Reply Innovation Ecosystems Network » The Next Silicon Valley , on August 17, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] play in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. But where did they come from? Here’s a little history lesson, courtesy of serial entrepreneur Steve [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply Customer Development with Network Effects | startupSQUARE's blog , on May 11, 2010 at 6:36 am Said: [.] One of the principles of Customer Development is to get out of the building and understand the smallest feature-set customers will pay for in the first [.] “Do you have a lot of old junk you want to get rid [.]

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. Recent growth in digital social networks has served as a reminder on what differentiates our species.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Just give you an example, Reid, I know you know this, we geek out on this, GAN: generative adversarial network. This is a multiple of a name for a really exciting neural network technology that can generate images, speeches, texts. Of course it can be used for creative usages for generating training data. There’s no doubt about it.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Just give you an example, Reid, I know you know this, we geek out on this, GAN: generative adversarial network. This is a multiple of a name for a really exciting neural network technology that can generate images, speeches, texts. Of course it can be used for creative usages for generating training data. There’s no doubt about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. This is the cycle of synergies that lead to strong vertical franchises in media. The Food Network. Of course there are many great verticals including: Auto, food, music, animation, shopping. ESPN in sports.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

the world’s largest maker of proprietary database software, is acquiring Israeli startup Convergin, which makes software that lets telcos deliver services across multiple networks and platforms. Formerly known as PhoneDo Networks, Convergin was founded in 2000. Oracle Corp., The company is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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