2003 Customer Development Management Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?
Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2014
For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. However, I will then argue that while these methods are necessary to managing new ventures inside a company, they are insufficient. As Steve would say, this is a big idea.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 22, 2009
After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. General managers of divisons are compensated on division P&L not long term innovation. You cannot say it is the people (owners, manager or workers).
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Frank Rimalovski is the executive director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute and managing director of the NYU Innovation Venture Fund. Frank has spent 20+ years in technology companies and venture capital, working at Lucent , Sun Microsystems , Apple and NeXT. Frank : You can describe it that way.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Maybe you can be the project manager and team up with someone else who is a prgrammer. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea.
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