Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. They understood the ubiquity, pervasiveness and ultimate profitability of these startups and doubled-down on their investments. The Internet May Liberate Us.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

They are free-thinkers and I admire how they viewed the potential in technology and made it happen. I admire Microsoft for its exceptional contribution to technology and innovation. Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. Thanks to Jean Chen, Cicinia ! #10- 10- Microsoft. 18- Twelve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2013

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it a while back, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Peak of inflated expectations.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company. Here’s why.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan. Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2010

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it recently, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Peak of inflated expectations.

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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.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. The words “startup,” “entrepreneur,” and “innovation” are used fast, loose and furious by both parties in Washington. Last week the White House announced Startup America , a public/private initiative to accelerate accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Even if you have heard some of the new terms, but can’t explain how, when, and why they are relevant to your startup, you may be in jeopardy. Startup pivot.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2015

I have chosen Colorado as the place where I want to focus the next chapter of my startup life because of its similarities to New Mexico but with the benefit of a rich and diverse tech economy. This has allowed me to spend time in Boulder with some exciting startups and some interesting and successful business leaders.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 14, 2018

Millennials are in fact the ones who consume the most digital technology, hence they are also fittingly labeled as the digital generation. So, here are five tips on how food truck startups could embrace the online technology to get longer queues outside their trucks. Get food bloggers to blog about your truck.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it recently, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Peak of inflated expectations.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. LEADING SECURITY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY MCAFEE ACQUIRES ISRAEL’S SENTRIGO.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 3, 2021

Sounds like a startup, no? And now in 2021 despite overflowing with joy and satisfaction on what’s been done and what I still have left to do, there still sits one truth: that if I’d had more guts, I never would have left Studio 6B in 1995. Or be somewhere else in the mix of media, technology and entertainment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. As well as phone support, customers expect you to accept mobile messaging, and provide quick responses via social media and multiple Internet websites.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

BRIC nations especially are innovating and creating new technology platforms, while the west holds onto fossil fuel era. There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. With a social bent.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2020

In 1995, at the dawn of the age of the commercial Internet, this involved landlines, answering machines, pagers, and fax machines. I continue to strongly believe that place matters for the development of sustainable startup communities. Today, my bet is that most 25-year-olds have never used one of these things.

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Diego Basch

AUGUST 21, 2012

To put it in a few words: Silicon Valley and the internet industry are not one and the same. You could have made the exact same argument in 1995 but used the word “computer” instead of internet. In the meantime there are tons of technology problems not making headlines. I know a few.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The technologies that make these features work have a huge future, but entrepreneurs should also consider how they can leverage it in any product they’re working on. After English speakers, Mandarin, Spanish, and Arabic speakers are the biggest users of the Internet. Increasingly, it is about new ways to deliver customer value.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Just about 4 years ago, I wrote on these pages about the struggle to protect the internets and some proposed legislation that was threatening the many small businesses and startups who depend on cyberspace to do business, feed their families, and assure that their employees will continue to be paid.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2018

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. While seeking a topic for his dissertation, he went with a colleague’s suggestion to graph the link structure of the internet.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Thanks to the technology boom and the advent of the internet, today more than ever people are able to open their own business and nurture their startup ambitions. I was also going to school at the time, I’m not sure I slept at all in 1995.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. We take MBAs.

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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.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2013

Godin launched Yoyodyne way back in 1995, a company which used contests, online games, and scavenger hunts to help market companies, with the likes of AOL (America Online), American Express, Microsoft, Sony Music and Sprint using its services. Information is there online, to any one of the billion people who has access to the Internet.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

There are a million things they can do in the world, but the spend most of their time looking for the next great technology company that sells a better widget, but doesn’t necessarily change their life in any meaningful way. I had my first exit when I sold my first company (Feld Technologies) at age 28. Totally brilliant.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2011

Periodically the meme surfaces that “the only place you can create a great software / Internet company is in the bay area.&# Sure – it’s had it’s ups and downs, but when I lived here from 1983 to 1995 the entrepreneurial vector was awesome. Everyone else, including VC’s like me, are participants.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2010

When I moved here in 1995 I didn’t expect to engage in much business as I was spending most of my time in Boston, NY, and San Francisco. However, I discovered an incredibly smart community that was extremely computer and Internet savvy. s in the US. s in the US. We’ve seen a lot of this magic in Boulder in the past five years.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The ’90s saw broader adoption by the middle class but even in 1995 only 28% of US households had a computer (US Census / Pegasus Research). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. The “PC” Era Finally Arrives. October 17, 2011. And Why 20%?

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 22, 2015

This is a very short way of saying that all jobs eventually get replaced by technology. Technology will take the role of many white collar jobs, just like machines have taken away many blue collar jobs, just like the plough took away many farming jobs. In 1995 $10 of that $100 might have went into getting filmed developed.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 22, 2015

Before we start here’s a fact which is easy to forget: Currency is a form of technology. Just like all technology, if an improved method comes along, there is a very good chance it will substitute what people where using beforehand. Another layer of technology.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

Sustainability is a major focus for startups and all companies. Today however, the technology used to grow these CVD diamonds (which stands for chemical vapour deposition) which have exactly the same atomic structure, physical, chemical and optical properties as mined diamond. Our technology work in the theatre has two purposes.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. It seems like there is a movement to replace today’s startup culture of hope and curiosity with one of smug superiority. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.” The Internet.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. It seems like there is a movement to replace today’s startup culture of hope and curiosity with one of smug superiority. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.”

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