Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. What a long strange trip China has been through.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

We had been attempting to compete by their rules with the same types of technology messages. Up until now all the graphics board companies supplied “technology”, and it was up to the customers to figure out which of these arcane specs was best for their business. Very much in addition to the text.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. What a long strange trip China has been through.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. He runs H4X Labs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. All the usual caveats apply. Like the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. All the usual caveats apply. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. It’s tough.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. It’s tough.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

Alice and Bettina had taken an idea they had tested in the class – building toys for young girls to have fun with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and started a company. As soon as they had designed the product, they found a contract manufacturer to build the product in China. You got on a plane yourself and went to China.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Over the past decade, he has launched multiple businesses, including three technology companies. our product is manufactured in Shenzhen, China … along with most of the high-tech electronics in the world, so we had to locate a factory, we had to find the right partner to build this product and work with us ….

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Use the cloud and subscriptions for computing technology. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Instead of the 42 million customers called for in its business plan, Iridium had 30,000 subscribers at its peak. billion because it fell in love with technology, succumbed to Waterfall product development and never bothered to get out of the building, get their heads out of their spreadsheets and ask, “What do customers want today?”.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. All the usual caveats apply. Like the U.S.

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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. Extremely difficult for large companies/government agencies as it is as much a culture/process problem as a technology problem.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. All the usual caveats apply. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Technology experts? Understand the technology flows. But in today’s technology markets, discontinuities are coming fast and furious. Are there other technologies from adjacent markets will impact this one? New technology? Are there analogies to other markets? Who are the industry experts in each segment?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

Alice and Bettina had taken an idea they had tested in the class – building toys for young girls to have fun with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and started a company. As soon as they had designed the product, they found a contract manufacturer to build the product in China. You got on a plane yourself and went to China.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Use the cloud and subscriptions for computing technology. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Our mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). What can Women 2.0

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development. Which brings us to the fourth reason it’s harder for large corporations to offer disruptive breakthroughs: startups. And for long-term survival – Horizon 3 – search for and create new/disruptive business model(s). this article first appeared in the Peoples Daily.)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Alice graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. With Roominate, Alice wanted to build a toy that would encourage girls to explore science, technology and engineering. — Alice and her team made it point to not just get customer insights but to understand all aspects of their business model.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. military had to develop new ways to collect intelligence.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Up until the dawn of the 21 st century, they defined military technology superiority. Our defense and intelligence community owned and/or could buy and deploy the most advanced technology in the world. Not only were they insulated from technological disruption, they were often also the disrupters. Its Not Just the Technology.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Alice graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. With Roominate, Alice wanted to build a toy that would encourage girls to explore science, technology and engineering. — Alice and her team made it point to not just get customer insights but to understand all aspects of their business model.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. military to rearm and mobilize.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We just held our third session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Ad Serving Technology. Sourcing in China. Smart China Sourcing. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Codeacademy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. This doesn’t mean just more technology stuff, though we’ll get that. Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation. I’ve been asked to talk today about the future of Innovation – typically that involves giving you a list of hot technologies to pay attention to – technologies like machine learning. In fact, it’s not about any specific new technologies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

Countries or people you meet sometimes don’t like our policies on a given issue, but what they almost universally admire and aspire to is American entrepreneurship, innovation, education, science and technology, and volunteerism, philanthropy. Blinken : Technology is not inherently good or inherently bad.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

with the auto bailout.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

The Movie Industry and Technology Progress. In each case, the new technology produced a new market far larger than the impact it had on the existing market. And why do they continue to fight new technology? Technology Innovation. 1920’s – the record business complained about radio. Regulation/Legislation.

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