Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Eric Ries in Times Square For any model to be useful it has to predict what happens in the real world – including the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model. “What is the “Business Model” of your startup?&#

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 223

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

LinkedIn’s Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs (annotated by Reid Hoffman) – crowdspring.co/1gIv7bI. Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt I) | by Mike Samson - crowdspring.co/164zLP9. 11 Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Be Able to Answer - crowdspring.co/19IMztu. crowdspring.co/19IC5KK.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. The remainder failed as a result of the phenomenon of investing in the best deals in their region which typically were not competitive on a national or global scale. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. I strongly disagree.

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Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners on their best business or entrepreneur turnaround story and here are the responses. #1- First they pivoted from video rentals by mail to smart suggestions by algorithm then they followed by leading the streaming revolution to now global domination. 1- Reed Hastings.

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Entrepreneur China Incubator Philippines 108

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I often think of all the times I was encouraged to conform when I come across entrepreneurs who are told that their ideas won’t work. Jalak means glimpse and is a word in Hindi (it’s not a traditional name) and has provided much entertainment to taxi drivers in Mumbai, camel drivers in the Rajasthani desert and countless others.

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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Once I started my venture capital career in 1999 after being on Wall Street and an entrepreneur, no one was going to come in the way of my doing what I loved and knew I was good at. Ones that struggled to raise venture capital funding when most VC’s thought that the business models of the internet could not be displaced.

Kenya 45

Kenya Venture Capital United States Internet 45

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current startup economy. More entrepreneurs get to try out their ideas with smaller amounts of capital, but the bar remains the same to get to the bigger rounds. Just as an additional disclosure, these are my thoughts, not that of First Round Capital, my employer.

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