Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. I like the guy because he’s credited with coining the word entrepreneur. And to keep executing large organizations hire employees with a range of skills and competencies.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. The US labor force gained over 10 million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2012—with over 21% of working Americans receiving at least part of their income through self-employment.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Then I realized what that qualifies me to be: an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs have to wear a hundred different hats, be good at dozens of skills. Armchair philosophy aside, I truly believe that people with diverse skills, people who are well-rounded and good-but-not-great in many areas can make perfect entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. Two lessons from the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Joining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Guido Kovalskys , co-founder and CEO of Nearpod , a learning platform.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. I saw this firsthand with my own experience as an early PayPal employee. The Power of Perception . How can we put things into context?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. Two lessons from the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Joining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Guido Kovalskys , co-founder and CEO of Nearpod , a learning platform.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. As we set out to design a venture capital firm that would enable founders to run their own companies, we began by asking: In what ways are professional CEOs superior to founder CEOs?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. I saw this firsthand with my own experience as an early PayPal employee. The Power of Perception . How can we put things into context?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Employee Benefits. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C.,

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

The move is not a stretch for Ella , who has spent her life as a social entrepreneur, philanthropist, and humanitarian. The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? How was VisionSpring named?

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. Yet absent a family obligation or something similar, nobody left until 7, 8, 9pm, or later even though we were too cheap to provide dinner for employees back then in the early days.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. I saw this firsthand with my own experience as an early PayPal employee. The Power of Perception . How can we put things into context?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The move is not a stretch for Ella , who has spent her life as a social entrepreneur, philanthropist, and humanitarian. The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? How was VisionSpring named?

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. Yet absent a family obligation or something similar, nobody left until 7, 8, 9pm, or later even though we were too cheap to provide dinner for employees back then in the early days.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2014

most of my peers from the early 2000 days of angel investing are now VC’s (Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Josh Kopelman, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples, Dave Whorton, etc). I had 9,000 angel list followers many of who had tried to co-invest with me previously. The Andreessen and Founders Fund investment in AltSchool is public.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. Yet absent a family obligation or something similar, nobody left until 7, 8, 9pm, or later even though we were too cheap to provide dinner for employees back then in the early days.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. But why don’t you start by kind of giving a little bit of background on you and your journey as an entrepreneur and maybe tell us a little about your work. Jack McGuinness: Sure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. I would add, though, a further question: Do new employees write code on their first day? So if an employee pushed code that broke the site, wed ask: why didnt our cluster immune system catch that? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

If you are an entrepreneur, you have probably heard some crusty old CEO or investor say something like “cash is king.” I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Wait ’til I get my money right. Then you can’t tell me nothing, right?

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

If you are an entrepreneur, you have probably heard some crusty old CEO or investor say something like “cash is king.” I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Wait ’til I get my money right Then you can''t tell me nothing, right? Kanye West, “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Then new-employee-orientation. Why do they never succeed? From Brittle to Robust. Predictability.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Joe Lonsdale.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Accel has already invested over $60 million in French start-ups and we would like to invest more – but will there be enough entrepreneurs left if the new Tax laws are voted in? the European leader in ride-sharing) and Shopmium (offering coupons via a mobile app) and as a result have contributed to creating close to 600 jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. True story.) million were enormous.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. Dying at 70? Dec 26, 2009).

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

5- Reflecting on our services, personable nature of employees and some humor. A company needs to learn how to lift themselves, their clients and their employees up, while incorporating digital strategy tactics that will excel in ways that no company or individual thought was possible. So ultimately, it was a bad name. 27- Unusual way.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 13, 2011

Will was kind enough to introduce me to a SEAL classmate of his, Brendan Rogers (SEAL 1990-2000), who joined me and 20 NYC CEOs/founders from the tech scene last night to talk about the SEALs - the training, the planning and the operations behind their combat operations - as well as draw out some relevant lessons for entrepreneurs.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business. I’ll show you the memo in a second. But first some background.) It was still a year away from its IPO.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Historically the dream of many entrepreneurs has been to go public. We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. Click here to make a reservation.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Action Steps: Have an employee (preferably a female) greet every customer as they walk into your store. Profitability is the main key to business success. Some analysts say right now is as tough a time as any to be an independent bicycle dealer (IBD).

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Action Steps: Have an employee (preferably a female) greet every customer as they walk into your store. Profitability is the main key to business success. Some analysts say right now is as tough a time as any to be an independent bicycle dealer (IBD).

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