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Steve Blank: How to Build a Billion Dollar Startup
The quickest way to create a billion dollar company is to take basic human social needs and figure out how to mediate them on-line. (Look at the first wave of the web/mobile/cloud startups that have...
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THIS is What Kills Innovation
Faced with disruptive innovation, you can be sure any possibility for innovation dies when a company forms a committee for an “overarching strategy.” —– I was reminded how innovation dies when the...
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Here’s Why Facebook is Shattering Silicon Valley Hopes
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies...
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Steve Blank: Microsoft Threatened to Sue Us Over the Letter “E”
By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. Somewhere that year we decided to professionalize our logo (you should have...
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Steve Blank: Here’s How Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes
Listening to my the family talk about dividing up the cooking chores for this Thanksgiving dinner, including who would peel the potatoes, reminded me that most careers start by peeling potatoes. KP –...
View ArticleWhy Online Business Imprudence Is Like a Loaded Gun
The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared. And it’s just going to get worse. It’s time to teach cyber security as an integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to...
View ArticleTesla: Here’s How Innovation Can Breed Haters
The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market — one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. Yet this is where startups will run...
View ArticleHere’s Why You Shouldn’t Give Away Your Board Seats
I had a group of ex-students out to the ranch who were puzzling over a dilemma — they’ve been working hard on their startup, were close at finding product/market fit and had been approached by Oren, a...
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Your Computer May Already Be Hacked
In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PCs and switched to typewriters. What do they know that...
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How Kevin O’Connor and FindTheBest Got Lean
When we started E.piphany there was an equally scrappy startup called DoubleClick [later acquired by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for $3.1 billon]. Over the years Kevin O’Connor, former CEO and founder of...
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The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared. And it’s just going to get worse. It’s time to teach cyber security as an integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to...
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