Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. She served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012.

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Technology China United States Government 300

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Recall that after nearly a year of operation, the Facebook growth team ceased all experimentation and for a full month, January of 2009, invested in improving their analytics tracking, which allowed them to perform more refined and powerful data analyses. Digging for insights isn’t easy but it’s worth it. Taking Moonshots.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works. EB : Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. April 14, 2009 4:03 PM Dave McClure said.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Content, of course, is the same!]. Read more: TechCrunch.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

in 2009 and debt moderated to 76.6% A recent study by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics showed that Israeli cows produced an average of 10,208 kg (around 10,000 liters) of dairy per cow in 2009, outperforming cows worldwide. Advertising distribution company DG FastChannel Inc. of GDP in 2010 from 5.2% of GDP from 79.3%

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Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. We talked about Facebook.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. I’ll admit that I do know one VC firm who’s strategy is not to call their entrepreneurs and not to be involved in operations.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

For example, it took over three years just to ship our first Android handset, and then another three years on top of that before the operating system truly reached critical mass. In November 2009, Sergey and I published plans to sell a modest percentage of our overall stock, ending in 2015.

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Dilution Stock Government SEC 87

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Previous Israeli exhibitors lists are available MWC 2009 and MWC 2010. i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. For the third consecutive year , VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli companies exhibiting in the MWC 2011 event.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Operations. Distribution. Mergers and Acquisitions. . --> Suppliers. Webinars Events. Industry Events. MediaNext 2012. E-Media Summit -->. 2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. Digital Magazines. -->. AddThis Bookmark Button END -->. Consultants.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business.

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