Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on 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.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

startups and small businesses. By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. entrepreneurs targeting U.S. entrepreneurs targeting U.S. Global Best Practices. startups and small businesses. Not anymore.

Small Business 81

Small Business South Korea South Africa Uruguay 81

OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

Macroeconomics for Startups. But still, the subject doesn’t always translate as well to the average entrepreneur as microeconomics does – most business people have good intuitive understandings of supply, demand, and pricing. So here’s my quick & dirty cut at Macroeconomics for Startups. I’m not an economist.

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China Startup Offshore Silicon Valley 74

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

Guest author Gary Whitehill resides on the board of advisors for the Dell Center for Entrepreneurs. In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. Fellow entrepreneurs may also be able to help. only operations.” Do Your Prep Work.

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Global United States Intellectual Property Malaysia 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

How does a globally-influential trade organization that counts 400 companies in its roster and is charged with driving the evolution of an entire industry get its start? Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship.

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Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. I just finished a new book by Stephen J. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/22/2018.

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Artificial Inteligence Reputation Viral America 205

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

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Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999).

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Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The Howdy Austin mural commissioned by Ride|Austin Here is your home page to get started and meet all of the people you need to know to plug into the Austin tech startup scene?—?the I used to meet a high profile entrepreneur or investor moving here every month and now it seems it’s one or two a week. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Startup CEO (OnlyOnce – the book!). One of the things I’ve often thought over the years since starting Return Path in 1999 is that there’s no instruction manual anywhere for how to be a CEO. Those are great books, and they’ve been incredibly well received by the global entrepreneurial community.

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New York City Startup New York Community 83

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. Don’t interpret this as a sign of laziness: many VCs work very hard.

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

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. More specifically, Miller suggested that it was much easier to find vendors like a good auditor and bank to work with than it would have been in Silicon Valley with its greater saturation of startups. Miller noted.

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Cloud Southern California Los Angeles New York City 118

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# If you’re a tech startup person I know you know what I mean.

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IPO Finance Valuation Naming 391

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. Well done Reed!

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Entrepreneur China Incubator Philippines 105

Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. Today the company still uses the logo that my college roommate created, employs thousands of people globally, and has a market cap well over half a billion dollars. I never thought I would see an opportunity like that again.

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RSS Government Internet Technology 63

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Every entrepreneur that has ever walked this earth has always asked if now is the right time to start. If there were an easy answer to this question, then more startups would exist, and the cry for innovation from financial “talking heads” as a cure for America’s current malaise would finally subside.

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Cleveland Matching Small Business Government 145

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

"Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current startup economy. At least nine out of ten high-quality angel-funded startups face an unnecessary death, because there is no Series A money to help them survive critical expansion. Facebook is doing billions in revenues.

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Angel Investor Valuation Startup Revenue 104

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

They run the gamut from affiliate marketing to startup conferences with virtually everything in between. We’ve used this experience to take the guesswork out of which conferences are the most valuable for a startup founder to attend. There are upwards of 100 digital conferences each year catering to the ecosystem. LTV Conference.

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Las Vegas Software Review Affiliate Cofounder 124

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

The new shape of innvovation is a lot more inclusive of new approaches and sources of startup funding. billion into startups nationwide, according to an analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California ( PDF ). billion was invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2011. Slimmer Pickings. Accelerators are also booming.

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Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

I did 5 years of building large computer systems and computer networks for global corporations and 3+ years as a “strategy consultant.&# In many of the meetings you’d meet clients who would tell you everything you needed to know, would offer to help you and then would never follow up on the help that they had offered.

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Framework Reputation Global Employee 378

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Young entrepreneurs take note. Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. – Thomas J. Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Lakeland Feed and Supply (Northwest).

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Small Business New York Denmark America 140

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

How we came up with the name of our startup (BeeWits) is quite interesting. The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). We are an EdTech startup that makes interactive toys that you can code – we like to say hack.

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Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 95

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. I considered it my right and privilege. When I didn’t find receptivity to that point of view, I decided to start FuturePerfect Ventures in 2013.

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Kenya Venture Capital United States Internet 45

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

The new shape of innovation is a lot more inclusive of new approaches and sources of startup funding. billion into startups nationwide, according to an analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California ( PDF ). billion was invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2011. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years.

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Venture Capital Deal Flow Atlanta Incubator 66

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. As a career venture capitalist, I look for entrepreneurs who are driven to innovate and keep an eye out for disruptive change regardless of cycle. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC.

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Silicon Valley United States Portfolio Internet 84

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. After the market downturn on Monday I set several limit orders – primarily on tech holdings that I wanted to increase positions in – in my personal account and went back to meeting with entrepreneurs.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. After the market downturn on Monday I set several limit orders – primarily on tech holdings that I wanted to increase positions in – in my personal account and went back to meeting with entrepreneurs.

Marketing 40

Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Coworking spaces strive to create an office experience for people who would not otherwise have an office such as freelancers, entrepreneurs, remote workers, and anyone who can work from home. Open coworking is perfect for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and remote workers who don’t require a personalized workstation.

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Austin Community Networking America 48

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. At ffVC, our primary origination strategy is to provide a high level of services to entrepreneurs, and then let word of mouth spread. They’re the entrepreneurs on the cutting edge of their respective disciplines.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114