Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. When companies want to innovate a new business model (vs.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Were not getting confused about our business," he says. 500|5000 List.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). Don’t and you might make one catastrophic mistake that leaves you in the annals of Effed Companies. Since selling Matt has gone on to become one of the smartest angels I have seen operate.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

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. Today, startups receive only 4% of those funds, something Clearshore–now in the customer discovery phase–is out to change.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

technologies like social networking, mobile gaming, and interactive advertising, in 2011 new fortunes and legends are being made. Most of the highest ROI opportunities we see need just a little money – sometimes just a few hundred thousand dollars or less – to “ignite” their business models. social networking hype of 2006-2007.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011. I've actually done a post making the analogy between RSCM and Moneyball as explicit as possible: https://possibleinsight.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/moneyball-for-tech-startups-kevins-remix/. September 27, 2011 5:09 PM. September 27, 2011 5:51 PM. ▼ 2011. (7). Venture News.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011. I strongly believe (at least for very early stage technology ventures) that you will get diminishing returns and arguably negative returns once you get past an initial threshold of team, product, market and financial diligence. May 1, 2011 10:32 PM. June 28, 2011 3:41 PM. ▼ 2011. (7).

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

The SBIR/STTR program made ~6,200 seed stage investments in 2014, dwarfing the seed investments made by venture capital. startups that don’t fit whatever’s hot in venture capital. The participating companies learned a significant amount about their business models, even in this very light-touch approach.

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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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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

Thursday, April 7, 2011. April 25, 2011 11:00 PM. May 14, 2011 2:39 PM. June 7, 2011 11:58 AM. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ▼ 2011. (7). The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment. Venture News.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. And as part of that we’ve developed a set of tools that could be used to search for business models.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 2, 2011

There's an old saying in the venture capital business: "Fund great companies, not great products or great features." The key question for 2011, therefore, is whether these great apps will mature into great companies. Will they build sustainable business models? billion valuation). billion valuation).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product. Memorex is turning 50 years old in 2011.

Technology 138

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

If you are pursuing an advertising business model, then in the early days you will almost certainly have to outsource, despite the fact that this could be a core long term advantage. Paypal, Google and others have great online payments tools that have low setup costs (but relatively high variable costs) and are easy to implement.

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Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures.

Bootstrapping 28

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

This whole process got me thinking about the textbook business model. Labels: business models , Grateful Dead , textbook. October 3, 2011 6:21 AM. October 20, 2011 7:34 AM. November 16, 2011 8:51 AM. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ► 2011. (7). Steve Bennet.

San Jose 28

San Jose Software Review Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2013

billion acquisition by SAP in 2011. SAP then put Lars in charge of its newly formed Cloud Business unit, which he promptly grew to $1 billion in annual revenue. Building a company isn’t about business models and inflection points; it’s about doing something larger than yourself. Lars is spectacularly qualified.

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Denmark Acquisition Viral Green 78

Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

Lobbying is ongoing by both the National Venture Capital Association and Angel Capital Association and James Geshwiler on the panel wrote a recent post on the ramification. Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing. ► 2011. (7). Venture News.

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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. In addition to Platform and Applied Venture strategies, the trend towards hiring ex-operators into partner roles at VC firms can be seen in this light. Business model.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  I’ve sat down with entrepreneurs and a copy of a term sheet guide I like [ “Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations ” by Alex Wilmerding, Aspatore Press.] and walked through each proposed term and why it is or isn’t important.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is time to fix your key SaaS metrics: P&L: MRR = MRE: you control your destiny when your monthly revenue equals your monthly expenses Sales & Marketing: Your cost of capital doubled, so if a CAC ratio > 0.5 Small and medium businesses. (2). Venture Capital. (3). ► 2011. (2). Online Gaming. (1).

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

During the next four months, we will examine over a dozen entrepreneurial ventures from a diverse mix of industries - technology, service, food & beverage, and fashion. I think this same concept plays into what Ive seen happening a lot more in the venture community: partners at VC firms jumping back into entrepreneurial ventures.

San Jose 28

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Venture Capital 28

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ► 2011. (7). I have to build a financial model? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ► 2011. (7). The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Venture News. ProfessorVC. Newer Post.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This got me thinking about the business model that Mike Keiser has built at the resort and a lecture began to form in my head. cant wait to go back, which is clearly goal #1 in the list of critical success factors if anyone is still following the business model tangent. Labels: Bandon Dunes , business models , golf.

Oregon 28

Oregon San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Today, VARs are the key to the SMB segment and their business model is collapsing, opening new opportunities for them and for technology providers. To survive, VARs need to change their business model and move from product sales to services. Small and medium businesses. (2). Venture Capital. (3).

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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”. Resource scarcity leads to innovation — as those of us who have lived and worked in the developing world are acutely aware.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) was also represented at the conference and is forging closer links with the ACA. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ► 2011. (7). I have to build a financial model? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Venture News.

Angel Investor 28

Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor San Jose 28

Tim Keane

MARCH 8, 2010

And the National Venture Capital Association and the Angel Capital Association have both weighed in.  And the National Venture Capital Association and the Angel Capital Association have both weighed in.  November 2011. September 2011. March 2011. Signup for email updates.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I have noticed this same feeling when making a venture capital or angel investment. Labels: angel investing , entrepreneurship , venture capital. April 25, 2011 11:20 PM. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ► 2011. (7). The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

San Jose 31

San Jose Technical Review Venture Capital Angel Investor 31

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ► 2011. (7). I have to build a financial model? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Venture News. Older Post.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. more in Small Business. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ► 2011.

San Jose 28

San Jose Silicon Valley Technical Review Angel Investor 28

Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Labels: CFO , home security , M and A , venture capital , venture financing. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ► 2011. (7). The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment. Venture News. Newer Post.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Balance Sheet 28

Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2013

billion acquisition by SAP in 2011. SAP then put Lars in charge of its newly formed Cloud Business unit, which he promptly grew to $1 billion in annual revenue. Building a company isn’t about business models and inflection points; it’s about doing something larger than yourself. Lars is spectacularly qualified.

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Denmark Acquisition Viral Green 44

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. The latter part of the business is what I am responsible for.

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