Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In some cases, branches of the military contracted directly with Stanford which worked with local contractors in Silicon Valley to build these components or systems for the military. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the Rubicon (steveblank.com) [.] on August 18, 2009 at 4:39 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2012

Entrepreneurial clusters like Silicon Valley (or NY, Boston, Austin, Beijing, etc.) And for Silicon Valley the investor flight to social media marks the beginning of the end of the era of venture capital-backed big ideas in science and technology. If you can’t see the video above click here.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 8, 2022

Andrew Bosworth : In two words: video games. I do feel lucky to have been raised in Silicon Valley where it was clear to everyone that this was a very valid and potentially lucrative career choice. The combo convinced me that software was for creativity and community — 100% impacted the rest of my life. Do you have any “AHA!”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And the wrong message is frankly strewn all over Silicon Valley. Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. Startups will continue to be aggressive in spamming us in our Facebook timeline. Or pivoted too quickly.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. But here was a $499 product that could let everyone use video.)

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For the past three years I have been pounding the table as loud as I can about the future opportunities in digital video. You need to produce content for YouTube these days because that’s the lion share of online video consumption. But here’s what Silicon Valley doesn’t get about Hollywood.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

How would customer interviews work via video? After teaching remotely for the last year, we’ve learned that customer discovery is actually more efficient using video conferencing. For the final Lessons Learned presentation many of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

If you can’t see the four videos of General Mattis click here for the entire talk. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. If you can’t see the Omniscient 2-minute video click here.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 13, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank was the bank of many founders and funds (30% according to some estimates), including our own at Remagine Ventures. Video Build in Public Diary (@showprogress) March 11, 2023 Now that we vented a bit, I’ll take the opportunity to thank everyone who helped bring this to a quick and positive outcome.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

Silicon Valley itself was built on the sciences with a foundation of trial-and-error and then improving the model and trying again. I believe this scientific method and trial-and-error approach is one of Silicon Valley’s most valuable strengths. Could big business accept its own creative destruction?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. Of course many have been employed for years in the video & music industries and a larger amount have even been pulled into aerospace and defense over the past 30 years.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. They don’t represent the true Silicon Valley.in the world according to @ bravotv there are no Asians or Indians in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

Unfortunately, while I had gone through phases of video game addiction in my life, in no way could I be described as even a “moderate hard-core gamer,” which ruled me out as a domain expert. But people didn’t buy video games on features and they weren’t looking to solve a problem. I was in the entertainment business.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The press called Rocket Science one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley and predicted that our games would be great because the storyboards and trailers were spectacular. To this day I still can’t play a video game.). Stage 1: Shock and Surprise. We raised $35 million and after 18 months made the cover of Wired magazine.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

From that perspective, things have been mostly rosy in the Silicon Valley for startups! except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. I went to college during the bust. And when I graduated, it was booming again.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

From that perspective, things have been mostly rosy in the Silicon Valley for startups! except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. I went to college during the bust. And when I graduated, it was booming again.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The search for a profitable and scalable business model might require a startup [.] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. They don’t represent the true Silicon Valley.in the world according to @ bravotv there are no Asians or Indians in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

The relevant part starts about 4:30 into the video (wait for it to download.) Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. to make sense of the unstructured feedback received from customers.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

billion company and has built up this valuation outside the Silicon Valley scene. In a world of Zoom, the difference between Silicon valley and a Midwest startups disappears, because so much of the engagement between founders and venture capitalists occurs through video conferencing platforms.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Given its inward focus, Berkeley has always been the neglected sibling in Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1z7WNzT.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. American Home Video: Video Stores. while none of the non-Silicon Valley regional firms were long-term successful as regional firms. Silicon Valley firms also did many non-tech deals.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. Microwave Valley was about to take off. military, the CIA and the National Security Agency.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 5, 2017

To gear up for the summit, you can check out Blockstack Academy for a series of educational videos featuring the founders, Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali, on the history of the Internet, distributed systems principles and pitfalls, and a vision for what can be built using systems like Blockstack.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Register with the code in your copy to get access to a five-part video series, a visualization of The Startup Way , bonus MVP examples courtesy of Intuit, and more. WSJ ) (nice piece about our efforts with The Long Term Stock Exchange) One final reminder!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Can you believe this is Roundup number 200!?!?

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Professor VC

JUNE 7, 2018

I always enjoy teaching these types of groups because it makes me realize the bubble we live in here in Silicon Valley. In the video, Mark calls out Silicon Valley as lazy for not doing basic research around markets. on Quora By the way, here is Mark Suster's video on research and prototypes:

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 15, 2011

There was a wonderful conversation two weeks ago on the NY Times' Room for Debate around " Can New York Rival Silicon Valley." That certainly wouldn't have been a credible way to frame the question in 2003 and today while I hope it doesn't try to become Silicon Valley the entrepreneurial community in NYC is second to none.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 24, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Open-Plan Offices Suck – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Your Brand is What You Do – [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2010

See the Secret History video and slides as well as the bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. ———— By the early 1960’s Lockheed Missiles Division in Sunnyvale was quickly becoming the largest employer in what would be later called Silicon Valley. Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. We would look to Color’s patents, which may include one for a file format that they were working on to record HD video. As to why they’d want Color Labs?

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