Steve Blank

6 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 20, 2020 by Steve Blank · said 11 times in 7 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Ann Miura-Ko (3), Mike Maples (2), Jonathan Abrams (2), Harry Stebbings (2), Marty Cagan (1), Mar Hershenson (1)

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2022 1 mention in 1 episode

Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 7, 2022 · 1 mention · from 1:00:38
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2021 1 mention in 1 episode

2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework May 11, 2020 · 2 mentions · from 4:22
20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo Jul 31, 2020 · 1 mention · from 30:03
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2017 1 mention in 1 episode

20VC: The Biggest Indicators Of Success In Founding Teams, How To Balance Both Vision and Operations & Taking Money From "The Man At The Rug Store" with Mar Hershenson, Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc May 24, 2017 · 1 mention · from 21:13
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2016 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure Apr 15, 2016 · 3 mentions · from 0:44
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate Jul 4, 2016 · 2 mentions · from 9:44
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Everything said about Steve Blank, oldest first

Jul 20, 2020 negative

Opinion

Blank: Ben Horowitz's wartime CEO analogy is flawed and inappropriate

“Business people who use that analogy. I'm not sure too many of them have been in the fight. If you lose in a wartime, it's measured and killed in action. And if you lose in business, it's maybe you lose your corner office. So I'm not sure that's the right anal…”

Steve Blank Jul 20, 2020 ▶ 15:31 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?

Jul 20, 2020

Insight

Blank: Startups search for business models while large companies execute them

“Large companies, existing companies Execute known business models, which is a fancy word for saying they know their customers, know their competitors, no pricing, no channel. They know all this stuff, but startups were doing something quite different. Startups…”

Steve Blank Jul 20, 2020 ▶ 5:07 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?

Jul 20, 2020 negative

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Steve Blank: Stock market and real economy have never been so disconnected

“There's never been a period where the economy and the stock market have been so out of sync.”

Steve Blank Jul 20, 2020 ▶ 7:52 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?

Jul 20, 2020

Insight

Blank: Startup survival in a crisis depends on CEO decision speed

“What I've seen is that the companies that are going to survive and then thrive in the recovery are driven by CEOs who could assess rapidly, come up with rapid strategies, and then take action and seize the opportunities, or else you just kind of have what's go…”

Steve Blank Jul 20, 2020 ▶ 12:33 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?

Jul 20, 2020 bearish

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Steve Blank: Sales leaders will never allow initial in-person meetings again

“If I'm in sales, there is no possible way, or if I'm the VP of sales or CEO, if there's no possible way, I'm ever going to let a salesperson again do a first meeting in person.”

Steve Blank Jul 20, 2020 ▶ 10:47 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?

Jul 20, 2020 negative

Insight

Blank: Video calls fail because over half of meeting communication is nonverbal

“At least half, if not more, of most meetings are based on nonverbal cues that you pick up from facial expressions, from body language, from other cues that video conferencing apps just currently don't have.”

Steve Blank Jul 20, 2020 ▶ 10:14 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?

Steve Blank

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