Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. His name is Alex Lawrence. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S. Serendipity.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

This seems like a no-brainer but Ballmer and the MSFT board might lean towards a less risky path. Names like Stephen Elop of Nokia, John Donahue of eBay, and internal candidates (Satya Nadella, Steven Sinofsky, et al) are mentioned. Remember Lou Gerstner ran American Express before taking the helm at IBM in 1993. Want names?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. Because I’d made a name for myself as an innovative marketer in consumer financing, I was then recruited by GE, which still had a consumer finance brand at the time called GE Money. Your first big innovation was also a huge cultural moment.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers. IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. If you drop the sentimentality, a company is a merely a brand-name for a historical context.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I named my lifestyle brand ‘Urban Spinster’ because I am an African-American woman who is single, never married over age 30.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Fresh out of college and a summer internship at a VC firm, I thought I knew what I was doing. Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge. Make it unique.

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