1995 Cofounder Internet Startup 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. We then spoke about startups. Startups shouldn’t be like this. And there you have it.
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Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
“The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. There are two primary reasons that startups fail: One, the execution of the idea is poor (wrong location, poor product, bad service, etc) and two, the startup is not making something that people want. But coming up with good startup ideas is hard.
The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Take Craigslist founder Craig Newmark , for example. He went on to work at IBM for almost 17 years and served as a programmer at several major financial firms before launching Craigslist from his apartment in 1995 as a way to share information. A good example is Google cofounder Larry Page. Make the Most of Applied Math.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 20, 2013
Savvy founders don’t just focus on iterating their own products – they look to other industries and niches for inspiration and opportunity as well. To find out which industries tech founders should look to next, I asked a panel of 13 founders the following: What is one industry (or niche) tech founders should be exploring now, and why?
Steve Blank
MARCH 9, 2016
When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. The two guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show tell it like it really is to navigate the chaos of a startup.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 12, 2016
If we fund an early stage startup company today and it’s hugely successful, it’ll be coming into its own in 2025. This is dangerous, especially for founders. Harmonix missed the cash gusher of the Internet bubble almost entirely while it pursued ideas that bombed miserably, one after another.
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