Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. Book Reviews.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

From his annual “100 Books” he finishes and highlights every year, his frank advice to a young medical supply company to pivot toward a new market, or his search for a new CEO for a struggling ed-tech company, he works tirelessly in the trenches to solve problems and enhance the startup ecosystem.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. All the usual caveats apply.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This also eliminated the big risk for my potential investors that I wouldn’t be able to stay in the country, and so I was able to close the financing round for the company in November 1998. The loan would be senior debt on the company’s books. I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. I think there are some real virtues to that, however, when I talk to my business partner, Ishan [Sachdev], about it, I use a slightly different metaphor: I talk about Jiro [Ono], Nobu [Matsuhisa], and Benihana. On Sushi and VC.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. All the usual caveats apply.

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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. And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Meet in person. They’re buying you.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. These labor matches represent the exact “world is flat” reality outlined in Friedman’s book. annual GMV.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

I also spend close to half my time teaching, and in addition to serving on the entrepreneurship advisory boards at Columbia, Yale and NYU, I am Chair of the Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics program at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. Marty: Were your own first investment ventures a positive and learning experience?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. That’s it.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

She began her career as a Wall Street executive, and earned an MBA in Finance from NYU-Stern School of Business. She started her first business, a handmade jewelry company, in 2001, where she learned that an MBA doesn’t even begin to prepare you for life as an entrepreneur. Corporate Partners.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s the third side of the triangle — the oft-neglected, misunderstood, and underfunded soft edge — that constitutes my book. I describe the soft edge culture in terms of five pillars — Trust, Smarts, Teamwork, Taste, and Story — and my book “ The Soft Edge “, packed with real-world examples, unfolds around them.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Most investors and other members of the American elite come from a homogeneous background: white, male, straight, Christian (or Jewish, at least in the finance industry), tall , handsome , physically fit, graduate of a select university, with American parents of upper middle class or higher socio-economic status.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) is partnered with several organizations building business, educational, science and technological bridges between Israelis and Palestinians, as well in and between other regions. .

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