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Steve Blank Startup communities: Building regional clusters

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 10/8/12 | One comment

How to build regional entrepreneurial communities has just gotten it’s first “here’s how to do it” book. Brad Feld’s new book Startup Communities joins the two other “must reads,” (Regional Advantage and Startup Nation) and one “must view” (The Secret History of Silicon Valley) for anyone trying to understand the components of a regional cluster.

There’s probably … More >

Steve Blank Why innovation dies

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 5/2/12 | 4 comments

Faced with disruptive innovation, you can be sure any possibility for innovation dies when a company forms a committee for an “overarching strategy.”

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I was reminded how innovation dies when the email below arrived in my inbox. It was well written, thoughtful and had a clearly articulated sense of purpose. You … More >

Steve Blank Why the movie industry can’t innovate and the result is SOPA

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 1/8/12 | 6 comments

This year the movie industry made $30 billion (1/3 in the U.S.) from box-office revenue.

But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. Where did the other $57 billion come from?

From sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business:Pay-per view TV, cable and satellite channels, video rentals, DVD … More >

Steve Blank How the iPhone got tail fins — Part 2 of 2

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 10/20/11 | 2 comments

Read part 1 of this post for background.

By the early 1920’s General Motors realized that Ford, which was now selling theModel T for $290, had an unbeatable monopoly on low-cost automobile manufacturing. Other manufacturers had experimented with selling cars based on an image and brand. (The most notable was an ad by … More >

Steve Blank How the iPhone got tail fins — Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 10/18/11 | 2 comments

It was the most advanced consumer product of the century. The industry started with its innovators located in different cities over a wide region. But within 20 years it would be concentrated in a single entrepreneurial startup cluster. At first it was a craft business, then it was driven by … More >

Steve Blank It’s not how big it is — it’s how well it performs: The startup genome compass

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 8/30/11 | 9 comments

What makes startups succeed or fail? More than 90% of startups fail, due primarily to self-destruction rather than competition. For the less than 10% of startups that do succeed, most encounter several near death experiences along the way. Simply put,while we now have some good theory, we just are not … More >

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