Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy. Intellipedia helped show the way for many other “Web 2.0” If we think about that, even in the 2000s, (circa), 2005, the iPhone wasn’t out yet and we were still really emerging into the modern era.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. For teams developing Digital Health solutions, Abhas Gupta of MDV noted that the Investment Readiness Level was closest to the standard web/mobile/cloud model with the addition of reimbursement and technical validation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. So I read through the HBS web site and picked 10 cases that were such egregious failures they unintentionally illustrated why a lack of Customer Discovery or Validation could sink a company. Four Steps. What’s Next.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Although it may or may not be in written form, it is reasonably common lore at Stanford that Terman was spider in the web, so to speak, that really set the wheels in motion for both Stanford’s place in “the valley&# as well as the valley’s place as a home to entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. I really enjoy your posts – thank you for taking time to place your experiences up on the web. Good for you!!! Thank you for the example of how we should approach adversity. Thank you again.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Note that each market – web/SAAS/physical products – and channel – online/direct sales – has different metrics and a different funnel steps.)For Step 4: Series B – you raise $10-$50M. Step 5: Series, C, D…. 2M in 18 months.

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