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?

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Of the 21 investments that Correlation Ventures has made so far, four are in life sciences startups and 17 are in technology, or consumer products and services. Venture Capital innovation people.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

This post follows directly on Steve’s earlier excellent post, Why Companies are not Startups. 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. First, let me recap a key insight for me from Steve’s post.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Aileen Lee of early stage fund Cowboy ventures wrote a post for Techcrunch yesterday looking at the characteristics of 39 startups founded since 2003 that are worth over $1bn. Fred’s Hackpad lists $1bn+ value companies founded after 2003 and founded before 2003.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz among others put $15 million into it. Peter Gylfe.

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David Teten

JANUARY 7, 2015

I created my blog way back in 2003 because of the scale it gives me (Principle #177, “Constantly think about how to produce leverage”). As Peter Thiel has observed , the best startup ideas look like bad ideas at inception. #16 Most of my presentations reflect my obsession with procedure manuals and checklists (#183 and #184).

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

In his post, Roberts says he was not turned off by the quality of startups, but by the investment philosophy pushed by the service. Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. s clear that he favors the concentrated approach to startup investing. social proof?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

For now, the title is “ Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City.” The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Venture Capital Matters. I’m deep into writing my latest book. Following is the current table of contents. Boulder As A Laboratory. Embrace Weirdness.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. Venture Capital & Technology' So thanks for playing Inception, Henry.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

“Historically, the $10 million valuation mark has been somewhat of a ceiling for seed stage startups. But so far this year, we’ve seen that a number of companies, often times with nothing more than a team and a Powerpoint presentation, have had great success raising capital north of that $10 million level.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I was around at the beginning, spending a day a month in Kansas City with the Kauffman Foundation as an entrepreneur-in-residence when the program was originally created by a team at the Kauffman Foundation to identify, develop, and network the next generation of global leaders in the venture capital industry using a two-year apprenticeship program.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 13, 2023

Mach Industries , a startup founded by Ethan Thornton when he was only nineteen and known for its innovative hydrogen-powered platforms, is quickly gaining traction in the defense industry. million in Mach’s seed round came from companies like Marque VC and Champion Hill Ventures. billion in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. We have a number of startups (or pre-startups) that we are helping get launched.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion. We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. And the odds of learning from faculty who actually had experienced the chaos and uncertainty of building a startup was low. Challenge three – Today, investors willingly fund startups to do anything on day one.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Most people never get to launch a successful startup, much less six. Instead of launching another startup, however, he’s launching entrepreneurs. Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It was only around 2003 that the first podcasts appeared, but actually what made Podcasts mainstream, was the show Serial , an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, which started as a side project of the National Public Radio’s (NPR) show “This American Life”. StartUp Podcast by Gimlet Media on Apple Podcasts.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. At least later stage investors.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 19, 2016

When I was at Reuters Venture Capital, for example, we worked like crazy to raise our second fund in the tech nuclear winter of 2001-2003 and kept believing, but there came a point when we flipped the switch and gave up. It’s how we achieve the seemingly impossible. That was painful, but it was the right thing to do.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers.

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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.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

500 Startups makes a couple of important announcements today, including some staffing changes (the promotion of Christine Tsai to partner and the addition of Paul Singh as principal) and the recipients of two of its microfunds, the d.fund (its designer-oriented microfund) and Twilio fund (for startups utilizing the VOIP API).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like. Nate, tell us a bit about Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. I agree with him. My guest today is Nate Redmond.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Among her early investments are Lyft, TaskRabbit and Modcloth, which, as our recent conversation shows, are only part of the reason Forbes called her “the most powerful woman in startups.” Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. I've been in venture now twice.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It was only around 2003 that the first podcasts appeared, but actually what made Podcasts mainstream, was the show Serial , an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, which started as a side project of the National Public Radio’s (NPR) show “This American Life”. StartUp Podcast by Gimlet Media on Apple Podcasts.

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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. And venture capital and entrepreneurship has made life even tougher for the modern corporation.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. Because venture does provide a lot of good things to a bunch of really great companies.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. Southern California, The “Silicon Basin” - - With the convergence of social media, the Internet, and digital entertainment, Southern California is now humming as a great startup region. Venture Capital from Northern and Southern Cal is flowing into the L.A.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Startups and founders need to come to terms with the stark reality that the rules of the game may be changed mid-play. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. In 2011, virtually every new consumer Internet startup incorporates a social/UGC element.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. Similarly, picking seed investors for your first startup in and around the craziness of an accelerator demo day can be just as scarring over the long term. Trivia question: What active startup investor has the most tats? ). I sat in a little ink shop on Rivington Street called Porcupine Tattoo.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. We thought readers might like to know more about this interesting player in the tech community. startupcto

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. even selfish humans are more likely to act fairly when in public.” ( Burnham, 2003 , pp. Describe Your Education and Past Successes.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. According to a 2003-2004 U.S. Thanks Tim!)

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