Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. So founders might be tempted to first shoot the arrow and then draw the target around it, by choosing the ‘soft’ metrics that puts them in the best light.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Extra credit if you know the back-story of slide 1 and why it’s appropriate for founders and their team. Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! The video below was my presentation to the group. sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. As for the final ‘P’, Miller recommended that founders simply live in a place they love.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion into startups nationwide, according to an analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California ( PDF ). Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. The new shape of innvovation is a lot more inclusive of new approaches and sources of startup funding. Slimmer Pickings.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

In California that averages around 42.5% It was 1999. Best to be a founder. And let’s say that it took 4 years to exit – that’s $31,250 / year. Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate. It was easy to do these calcs.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Stock Quotes.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. 5- Jack Ma founder of Alibaba. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. #10- I started the company when I was 25 years old and had just moved from California to NYC.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. The article explores some major players and their actions. They didn’t want this to be an engineering-centric effort,” Ms.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): So I think I'm the only Carmine Gallo in California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder. Always be fund raising.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

That economy, our new economy, looks vastly different from that which we’re, perhaps, familiar in California or New York. Staying private  — The average age of a technology company before it goes public is 11 years, as opposed to an average life of four years back in 1999. California. Imagine that.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And everybody rediscovers the picks and shovels analogy and says, ” Oh, the Gold Rush in California, the people that made all the money were the guys who were selling picks and shovels to the prospectors.” Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs. VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. How did you go from VC to founder? They’re building them for the world.

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