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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy. Want to be a guest on the show?

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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Step 5: Series, C, D….

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The End of More – The Death of Moore’s Law

Steve Blank

In 1965, Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, observed that the number of transistors was doubling every 24 months and would continue to do so. This basic law of physics has created a “Power Wall” – a barrier to clock speed – that has limited microprocessor frequency to around 4 GHz since 2005.

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Crazy enough to change the world

Steve Blank

“ Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005. founder paired with a mentor who had two operating companies in this space, who had developed and sold vertical market software to companies in this space, and had studied the field as an academic specialty. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

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Crazy enough to change the world

Steve Blank

“ Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005. founder paired with a mentor who had two operating companies in this space, who had developed and sold vertical market software to companies in this space, and had studied the field as an academic specialty. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

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Part 2 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 31: Congressmen Dan Lipinski and Seth Moulton

Steve Blank

I also was part of helping create the Technology Commercialization Fund created in 2005 to help get research out of labs and into creation of new products. Next on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : Evangelos Simoudis , co-founder and managing director of Synapse Partners ; and Ashok Srivastava , Verizon’s chief data scientist.