Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995. What Do VC’s Do?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2019

Company names like “Just Tables” or “Headphone Hut” will limit your ability to evolve and grow as new opportunities arise. The online classified site’s interface has remained mostly unchanged since it debuted in 1995. No one could call Craigslist a beautifully designed website – even in 1995. Craigslist.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource -- the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year. Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. The Origins of Web Summit / f.ounders. Getting names of marquee speakers would obviously draw a good crowd from across Europe.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. (If

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Our name came from very humble origins. Not knowing anyone’s name I naturally waved to everyone that walked or drove by.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Snaptu is a startup run by a highly innovative collection of engineers and entrepreneurs who we already work closely with,&# Facebook said in a statement. McAfee entered into an OEM relationship with Sentrigo in 2010 to offer Sentrigo database security products under the McAfee brand name. Unemployment fell to 6.1%

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

As a company that has revolutionized the online appointment scheduling industry, Schedulicity understands the importance of having a strong web presence and how it can translate into a successful business. Be cautious when choosing the name of a professional Facebook page. Once a page has more than 30 fans, the name cannot be changed.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It seems we are headed down the wrong path, making it harder for entrepreneurs to obtain and contest patents. You see, I was using the name Web Informant for sending out a series of email newsletters, and I have been doing so since 1995. Including the trademark registration.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. I worked in Rome on a small team with a really smart young woman named Elisabetta. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. When I started my second company I was a serial entrepreneur.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. another account. Confirm Email.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

But have no doubt the other 3 senses will arrive on the web. To give us just a little bit of belief the ‘fantastical statement’ above this about : Only a decade or so ago a printer was a guy name Tony in who had a little factory Ringwood. Web enabled – of course. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

While few agree on exactly where the cut-off between Millennials and Generation Z is , (is it 1995? According to serial entrepreneur and best-selling author Deep Patel: Generation Z is 55% more likely to want to start a business than millennials. everyone can agree that a new generational cohort has arrived on the scene.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Historically the dream of many entrepreneurs has been to go public. In 2009, Barry was a category winner of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a winner of Crain’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was included on Treasury & Risk’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

While few agree on exactly where the cut-off between Millennials and Generation Z is , (is it 1995? According to serial entrepreneur and best-selling author Deep Patel: Generation Z is 55% more likely to want to start a business than millennials. everyone can agree that a new generational cohort has arrived on the scene.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. I thought Id just go with a simple blog name like Steve Bennet, but wasnt available on Blogger so I had to come up with something else.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

The new received wisdom is that the best entrepreneurs can stay CEO through the entire growth cycle of the company. We named Jeff CEO of LinkedIn in the middle of 2009, about four years after I first approached David Sze about replacing myself. Dick wasn’t named CEO until 2010, four years after the company’s official start.

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