Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The Golden Age for Entrepreneurs and VC’s. The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits.

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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. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

Mike is the author of ‘Get Different’, ‘Fix This Next’, ‘Clockwork’, ‘Profit First’, ‘The Pumpkin Plan’ and ‘The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur’ His books have been translated into 10 languages. First, the pumpkin plan and the toilet paper entrepreneur.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

If you're looking for a new podcast, the female startup club shares tips, tactics and strategies from the world's most successful female founders, entrepreneurs, and women in business to inspire you to, to action and get what you want out of your career. So now it's the chief revenue officer, right. Let's just crank through this.

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! Image Credit: Enrico Bratta.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Valve’s employee handbook is a fascinating read. Lots of important lessons for entrepreneurs - [link]. 8 Major Mistakes Entrepreneurs Will Make In 2013 | Forbes – [link].

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

For example, ater working with a handful of small businesses, I realized buzz words like “SEO” were often thrown about as a way to generate revenue, but few knew how to make them work for their business. We currently carry over 2000 products from more than 50 designers and have served over 30,000 happy customers. The Bagtique was born.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Two lessons from the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. It gets you to a business faster. …”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Entrepreneurs love the art of the start. Assuming your startup takes off, you will probably find that the fun is gone by the time you reach 50 employees, or a few million in revenue. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While employees are often inspired by success stories and case studies of triumphant innovation tales of large companies, the cost of not innovating is often overlooked. Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Employee Benefits. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 With a low barrier to entry and a growing demand, it is an appealing business for eager entrepreneurs. In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. Additional market research resources include: Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Entrepreneurs love the art of the start. Assuming your startup takes off, you will probably find that the fun is gone by the time you reach 50 employees, or a few million in revenue. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Two lessons from the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. It gets you to a business faster. …”.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Young entrepreneurs take note. The company operates a unique policy that requires each of its employees to spend at least one day each month volunteering in the local community. This inventive strategy has improved the company’s visibility in the local community and fostered a friendly and welcoming culture for employees.

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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. PayPal ultimately became a very successful company. Do No Harm.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. The launch, by the way, was a failure. Surely not.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Studer Community Institute also provides leadership training and skill-building opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs. Too often (accurately or not) entrepreneurs and small business owners perceive that local governments put up hurdles for them to jump over. A culture of community support.

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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. PayPal ultimately became a very successful company. Do No Harm.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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. So I helped, I was one of his first employees and wound up becoming the chief operating officer and running part of the firm and we grew at our peak to around 50 people or so.

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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. We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble.

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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. PayPal ultimately became a very successful company. Do No Harm.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. Keep a close eye on your competitors but also on your peer entrepreneurs in your town; they provide the context relevant to you. I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Remember Kozmo.com, whose employees promised delivery of DVDs and ice cream in under an hour for free? Weve had people from Australia and Singapore. And the money is nice, too."

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? From Brittle to Robust.

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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. We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

Under-reported last week was the passing of Wayne Huizenga, one of the truly great entrepreneurs of the last 50 years. Combined with the passion and guts was an inherent foresight as to the overriding business importance of predictable customers and recurring revenue. In three separate industries. With three different business models.

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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. We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

But, you can be sure that as an entrepreneur, each day will be loaded with new possibilities to challenge yourself, be innovative, and learn something new. Increased productivity means increased profits allowing manufacturers to pay higher wages and attract the best employees. #7- I could push myself. Photo Credit: Hassan Usmani.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

7:01) The importance of both customer and employee experience, brand building, and pivoting to anticipate the new normal that's coming. (9:33) 18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system.

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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. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Most people don’t know that Zappos had a very turbulent history when it was founded, or about the many personal sacrifices that Tony Hsieh (and early Zappos employees made) to help Zappos achieve such extraordinary success and $1 billion dollars in revenues in fewer than 10 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. >50% of our revenue in now viral.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Dan is an entrepreneur, and angel investor and became a highly sought-after coach in the SaaS industry and founder of SaaS academy after exiting three technology companies within a ten-year period. He's an entrepreneur, angel investor and became a highly sought after coach in the SaaS industry. That's employees, right?

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