Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

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.)

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

MovieLabs is researching how to redefine the movie experience, advance content distribution, and understand media consumers. Ownership of movies for collectors, when it was physical media, meant something. . — Steve Weinstein is the CEO and founder of MovieLabs , the research consortium for the six Hollywood major studios.

Channel 120

Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

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. like WeChat.).

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2020

I receive emails and texts, as well as social media posts daily, and it is inspiring,” Jill says. The menu is posted on social media and on their website ; customers pay their invoice online; and the meal kits are available to be picked up at their commercial kitchen or delivered for a small fee.

Small Business 434

Small Business Jordan Green Social Media 434

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Visionary CEOs have always been the face of their company, but today with social media, it happens faster with a much larger audience; boards now must consider what would happen to the valuation of the company without the founder. Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Comfort features evolved as well: climate control – first heat, later air-conditioning; and entertainment – AM radio, FM radio, 8-track tape, CD’s, and today streaming media. Media/entertainment systems. In the last decade GPS-driven navigation systems began to appear. Navigation maps and controls.

Technical Review 292

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 292

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Joe Felter , retired Army Colonel; and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania; and William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Lean 385

Lean Security Asia SBIR 385

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We came to the Lean LaunchPad class wanting to build a mobile/web research management system aimed at helping qualitative researchers better manage the media they captured in the field. Here’s how that happened. We were ready to learn, but pretty confident we would end the journey in the same market space in which we started.

Lean 315

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

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. Once a program is coded and compiled, it can be deployed and run (executed) on a desktop computer, phone, in a browser window, a data center cluster, in special hardware, etc.

Artificial Inteligence 417

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

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. like WeChat.).

China 215

China Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Non-Compete 215

Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2012

Facebook and Social Media. Today, social media startups can return 100’s of millions or even billions in less than 3 years. Instead, the investor money is moving to social media. New VC’s, focused on both the early and late stage of social media have transformed the VC landscape. And who can blame them.

Silicon Valley 336

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Social Media IPO 336

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

Institutional Investors 233

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

That’s the world you’re graduating into – immersed in social media, with infinite facts and continuous news. But ultimately, governments and companies figured out how to master the new technology and individuals lost, as the power of the state, and power of profit, controlled the new media. The same is true for the Internet.

North Korea 252

North Korea Social Media .Net Europe 252

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses. They had lots of these projects.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses. They had lots of these projects.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

Social Media 132

Social Media Customer Programming Video 132

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. There are a dozen sector-specific incubators (a Biomedicine Incubator in Shanghai, Advanced Material Incubator in Beijing, a Marine Technology Incubator in Tianjin, etc.)

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Programming SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Technical Review Iraq Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Technical Review Iraq Social Media 120

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.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. Current tools do not provide users with a way to understand the meaning within adversary social media content and there is no automated process to disrupt, counter and shape the narrative. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

Social Media 120

Social Media Customer Programming Video 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Joe Felter retired Army Colonel and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Steve was CEO of MovieLabs the joint R&D lab of all the major motion picture studios. He runs H4X Labs.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

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. During the Covid pandemic, most of her engineering team worked remotely. At the same time, her account executives were able to use Zoom for sales calls and close and grow business virtually.

New York 333

New York Miami Silicon Valley Sales 333

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

These incubators are mostly clustered in the eastern coastal regions, and disproportionately target TMT (Technology Media and Telecom) and Biotech. There are a dozen sector-specific incubators (a Biomedicine Incubator in Shanghai, Advanced Material Incubator in Beijing, a Marine Technology Incubator in Tianjin, etc.)

Technical Review 170

Technical Review Programming SBIR China 170

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How do they become present on new social media and communications channels? How do they convert existing manufacturing plants (and their workforce) for a completely new set of technologies? How do they bring on new supply chains? How do they connect with a new generation of customers who had no brand loyalty?

Framework 389

Framework Distribution Channel Leadership 389

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

social media, ecommerce, gaming) instead of in hardware, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, transportation infrastructure, etc. Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs. industrial policy.

China 323

China Venture Capital Government Artificial Inteligence 323

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

Instead our values are shaped by what we read on social media, where we find an echo-chamber of others who think like we do. Technology that was supposed to bring us together has instead sold out the country for partisanship and division, for profit over national interest.

Afghanistan 340

Afghanistan Silicon Valley Vietnam Government 340

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. What ended up happening, however, was we were eventually subsumed under the traditional media business. Chris Schroeder. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Andy Cunningham.

Washington 285

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 285

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

States can utilize subversive and disruptive messaging on social media and other platforms to sow discord and confusion within an adversary’s borders. Misinformation Warfare : Disinformation campaigns designed to influence large numbers of people in subtle ways will likely be a mainstay of future conflict.

Taiwan 322

Taiwan Technical Review Technology Design 322

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2017

It drove me crazy when we failed to deliver a project for sales on time or we missed a media deadline. In addition to customer discovery, creating end user demand, and product strategy, Marketing also serves as a service organization to sales. Making excuses instead of producing timely deliverables meant we were failing as an organization.

Bankruptcy 371

Bankruptcy Sales Channel Restful 371

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

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. The convergence of digital trends along with the rise of China and globalization has upended the rules for almost every business in every corner of the globe.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Business Model 325

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. .

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

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.

China 295

China Government Russia Artificial Inteligence 295

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle. The five stages of the hype cycle are: Stage 1: The Technology Trigger : A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off.

Artificial Inteligence 318

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) His insights about how large companies are using the Valley is the core of this series of four blog posts. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120