Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

This wave of 1950′s/’60′s startups (Watkins-Johnson, Varian, Huggins Labs, MEC, Stewart Engineering, etc.) military by other new startups; Sylvania Electronics Defense Laboratory, Granger Associates, Philco, Dalmo Victor, ESL and Argosystems.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

This is how I remember it: It’s September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382. In walks Ren Ng , introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?” It was the defining moment when I started thinking about doing my own venture fund.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? Well, you’re right, most don’t, but one example of a startup that does is PlentyOfFish. Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Not all startups need outside investment to grow. What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. The Startup Investment Landscape.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] And one day all the seemingly random data and experience they’ve acquired will end up as an insight in building something greater than the sum of the parts.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

The last couple of weeks I’ve been on planes and trains, but wanted to make sure you get a round up on some of the latest technology news on Israeli startups. Facebook Expands Credits Offers to Europe Via SupersonicAds – a huge deal for the Israeli startup, perhaps thanks to its UK office? New Product launches.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

It’s like the plot of a Hollywood movie: Three best friends, with no prior business experience, decide to band together and form a startup business. The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. This was our first stab at a legitimate startup,” says David. “In

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Planning, Startups, Stories. Member since 01/2005. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. Small Business Blogs. OReilly Radar.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Last week LinkedIn reminded me that it’s been 9 years since I started VC Cafe (Dec 2005). I summarized the list of tools I used to collect information about startups in the Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List and also crowdsourced the list of tools on hackpad (which was since acquired by Dropbox).

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Over the last twenty years both of these features of the startup financing world have changed dramatically flipping the balance of power from investor to entrepreneur. .

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Up and Running

MAY 7, 2018

In his popular book “ The Lean Startup ,” Eric Ries tells fledgling business to fail fast. By 2005, GoPro had $150,000 in revenue. It’s time to change your mindset on this one and accept that failure will happen, but that failure is a teacher that shows us how not to do something.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Lean methodologies have changed the way science is commercialized in the U.S. government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. I run my office like startup. How the U.S. How the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. From there, they'd make the leap to "Series A," which used to refer to the first round of institutional capital invested.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 18, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Startup Executive Compensation Scorecard Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders → No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly Posted on October 18, 2010 by admin No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly.

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Bryce Dot VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

With all of the turmoil in startupland and the world of venture fund raising we feel extremely fortunate to have been able to raise this new fund and to have done it in such a short amount of time. Second, and more importantly, the seed landscape has changed dramatically since 2005. years felt too fast and 4 years felt too slow.

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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. Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Check out Tim Berry’s book, Lean Business Planning , coming soon. Well that’s where the lean planning comes in. Well that’s where the lean planning comes in. That’s where maybe the lean startup mode comes in. Read also: Should You Stick to the Plan or Change It? – (9:47). How minimum?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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