Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

We would love to get your suggestions in the comments section for (1) the type of company that we should follow, and (2) the types of issues that the company might encounter (reminder: the goal is to illustrate common difficulties entrepreneurs face when it comes to understanding their financials).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. combination of factors –.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. The first company started as a BBQ catering business, and eventually focused in on their most popular product, a dip made of blended up chicken plus various sauces. He did $5M in 2011 sales and is projected $7.2m

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Is “Data” a Business Model? Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. So is “data” now a new business model, as some suggest? © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

In 2011, I wrote about Jugaad, according to Wikipedia “a colloquial Hindi word that can mean an innovative fix or a simple work-around”. Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. The “third world” is now first in many categories – in natural resource, in youth, in GDP growth.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

I mention challenges and opportunities in the same breath here because it’s axiomatic among entrepreneurs that if something were easy to do well profitably at scale, it would have been done already.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

In 2011 Professor Carter was in the first National Science Foundation I-Corps class. Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. The business model for real estate developers isn’t hard to understand – they buy farms and ranches then build houses and sell them off.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Amazon vs Apple: A Tale of Two Business Models. October 3, 2011. What’s striking to me is the polar opposite business models Apple and Amazon have established to crack the same nut. Apple has a marginally profitable digital content business which drives a highly profitable hardware business.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If For VC’s and entrepreneurs the gold rush to liquidity was on. Carpe Diem.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Third, to share both thinking and practice as I learned how to teach entrepreneurs (the way one teaches artists and musicians.). For 2011, I’m glad to announce that you can now hear my blog posts via a podcast that you can subscribe to, download or have emailed to you a few days after each blog post goes live. Now Hear This.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. It Started with an Idea.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). “Silicon Valley” (see Note 2) is hardly alone in this urbanization of startups trend. April 13, 2012. I was back in the SF Bay Area last week for a bit of work and a bit of fun.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2016

Xiao Wang, Chief Fire Starter, InnoSpring Silicon Valley. So you’ve decided to enlist a technology incubator to help your new business get off the ground. You have a great idea and a strong business plan, and an incubator is just the partner you need at this stage. Do entrepreneurs work alongside one another?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

. ———– The National Institutes of Health recognizes that Life Science/Health Care commercialization has two components: the science/technology, and the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Next → Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur). And getting to know entrepreneurs for fifteen years– seeing what worked or didn’t for them– has certainly been helpful too. It’s funny: Many people argue young entrepreneurs are so effective because they can blow up industries. Get Tickets.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

In 2011, I wrote about Jugaad, according to Wikipedia “a colloquial Hindi word that can mean an innovative fix or a simple work-around”. Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. The “third world” is now first in many categories – in natural resource, in youth, in GDP growth.

Africa 40

Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. Sure, there is always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. It’s free. Author : Todd.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Monday, September 26, 2011. However, I have seen some blog posts posing the question about whether the same principles of valuing baseball players could be applied to entrepreneurs. I encourage entrepreneurs to give it a shot and let me know what you think. ▼ 2011. (7).

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. Kennet has a white paper on that summarizes why bootstrapped businesses are the best.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. Finally, I will be speaking at The Commonwealth Club next Thursday, on August 11, 2011, at 6:30 p.m.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Monday, November 14, 2011. Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (H.R. At the end of the day, very few entrepreneurs say "I wish I had raised less money".and ▼ 2011. (7). I have to build a financial model?

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, April 7, 2011. This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. Ive seen a number of entrepreneurs, angels and VCs fall into the trap of providing debt in small pieces.

San Jose 36

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market.

Customer Development 60

Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 60

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. One of the best things about being an entrepreneur is that there are no rules. One of the worst things about being an entrepreneur is that there are no rules. infoChachkie.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. An additional list of business resources for startups is available here. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Walker Law:Â Tips for Entrepreneurs. Legal Wiki â?? great basics.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I attended the 13th Silicon Valley Annual VC/Entrepreneur luncheon organized by NVCA. The guest speaker was a well known and highly successful Silicon Valley veteran: Tony Zingale, President and CEO of Mercury Interactive. Small and medium businesses. (2). ► 2011. (2).

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. At a high level, I definitely agree that being an entrepreneur and being in school dont necessarily mix. At a high level, I definitely agree that being an entrepreneur and being in school dont necessarily mix. Most successful entrepreneurs will repeat this process many times.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Some result from years of work and/or education while others are a result of trying to identify a unique solution to a consumer or business problem. We recently had our Neat Ideas Fair, which is my favorite annual event of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at SJSU.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

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. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ask [link] – you don’t need to be in the valley. If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? I don’t have any formal business training and I actually think it’s served me well. If you’re a young entrepreneur, than congrats!

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. Surly, Silicon Valley wasn’t in a bubble. Sounds like you pivoted from your original business model. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. You can read more about that here.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. was part of a Dow Jones VentureWire webinar last week titled Negotiating An Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know. ► 2011. (7). I have to build a financial model? ProfessorVC. Thursday, April 1, 2010. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJs.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Sponsored Links His start-up Viddy, launched in early 2011, created a smartphone app that allows people to capture, enhance and share video and already has 40 million registered users. But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It Forget the Valley — pack your bags for Google L.A."

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Astonishingly, the entrepreneurs took the deal. This was a crazy deal for the entrepreneurs to take. It is incredibly expensive money, and as O’Leary said, it is a confirmation that many banks are not currently lending to small business in America. As O’Leary said, this isn’t an equity investment.

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