Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

I was honored to give the commencement speech at the University of California Santa Cruz, right down the road from the ranch. Rather than my usual talks about innovation and entrepreneurship I shared a few lessons learned after serving seven years as a public official on the California Coastal Commission.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

Senior Open Championship in 2011 and for the 2012 BMW (Fedex playoff), as well as play with celebrities, politicians, and other professional athletes. Working in Sales & Marketing for Midas Event Supply (MES) in Ontario, California, he became a skilled trade show representative to club managers.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here.

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VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011. That’s the order of states with the greatest dollar value of seed and early stage investment according to a PWC MoneyTree study that my partner Jason blogged about today.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

Back in January 2011, Groupon bought out Grouper.co.il , Israel’s first to market daily deal site for an estimated $8-15 million US dollars. On August 3rd, 2011, BUY2 bought out competitor Deal Hayom for 2 million shekels ($568,000, 08/06/11, Hebrew article). Ben Bakhshi is an Israeli citizen born in California.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). Right now this isn’t robust because the buyers are bottom-feeders (e.g.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 13, 2011

The first quarter of 2011 saw these return to their pre-recession levels with financing for Internet companies up 83% from the last quarter of 2010. While about half of that was included in the fourth quarter of 2010, the rest was counted in this first quarter of 2011. Go California. billion in VC investment.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Blue Coin Last up, Sunil Sharma from Walnut Creek, California, presented Blue Coin, a loyalty program management platform and service catering to small to medium size businesses. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. San Francisco, California. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Alexia Tsotsis. Thursday, August 9th, 2012.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 4, 2023

The result was Burger Barn, and soon after its founding in 2011 people from across the province began to notice. Innit & Out Burger” is our nod to the iconic California burger franchise. Growing up in the Six Nations territory in Ontario, Jason dreamed of creating his own unique burger restaurant.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Today, September 13, 2011 is launch day ! A Conversation with Eric Ries Thursday, September 15, 2011, 7:30 PM 1855 Main St , Santa Monica , CA ( map ) Price: $30.00 /per person Eric not only created the term "Lean Startup", he has sparked a movement that is changing the way people think about startups. I'll be signing copies as well.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. Launch Date: February 20, 2011. San Francisco, California.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011. San Francisco, California. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Disrupt SF. Startup Battlefield. Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get? Rip Empson. View Staff Page. Follow me on twitter. Rip Empson is a writer and rabble-rouser at TechCrunch.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. San Francisco, California. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Jason Reply jorge , on February 27, 2011 at 9:38 am said: wow. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on. that is tenacity!

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Held in a retreat center on the coast in Bolinas, California, the course gives Fellows the rare opportunity to focus completely on their ideas and a systematic way to apply them.”. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. Thiel Fellowship.

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VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011. That’s the order of states with the greatest dollar value of seed and early stage investment according to a PWC MoneyTree study that my partner Jason blogged about today.

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www.jonsamsel.com

MAY 12, 2011

Jon Samsel Social media, SEO, marketing and writing Home Bio Books Portfolio Login A Framework for Web Analytics On May 10, 2011, Heardable’s CEO, Jon Samsel, was asked to speak at the Jamba Juice Digital Marketing Summit in Emeryville, California. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11 a.m., a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

In San Francisco alone, according to Mayor Ed Lee, the technology industry added 13,000 out of the 25,000 new jobs created in the past two years, bringing the city’s unemployment rate to the third-lowest in California. What can we do on the public policy front to turn the United States into one giant Silicon Valley?

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 1, 2012

In 2011 alone, venture capitalists invested $429.1 Knewton secured a $33-million investment in 2011. Over the past few years, a growing number of education-tech companies have seen a surge in funding from venture capitalists. million in 82 education technology deals, an increase from $334.3 million and 58 deals the year before.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Our average delivery times to California are 50% faster than Amazon. 80 people in California have booked this destination in the last 30 days. Checkout the Kimbao Sauvignon Blanc you can see sales and would buy it again rates since 2011. Costco Special: Get an extra year of warranty! Our return rates are 40% lower than Wayfair.

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Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 124

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

See the January 2011 edition after the jump. ’s Haifa R&D Center has developed a new microprocessor called Sandy Bridge, which is set to be launched in early 2011. Intel Israel plans to hire 1,000 new employees in 2011 to develop and produce 22 nanometer technology. For previous editions, click here. Intel Israel Ltd.’s

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Note that I merged the two Southern California regions (LA/Orange County and San Diego) into one. Southern California*. Southern California = LA County, Orange Cty and San Diego Cty. In 2010, MoneyTree© reports that only 138 seed stage VC deals were done outside of California, New England, NYC Metro and the Pacific Northwest.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Fourth, as a public official in the State of California , to offer a window on how public policy on California Coastal protection gets made. 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.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 16, 2011

Amazon Backs End to Online Sales Tax in California – NYTimes.com. tags: blog amazon california. Library clips :: Facebook and Twitter are broadcast design models; Google Plus is a sharing design model :: July :: 2011. The Social Business Stack: The Elements « Dachis Group Collaboratory. tags: blog social social crm.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Memorex is turning 50 years old in 2011. I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. They are very interesting. Now, I have an assignment that I would like to request your help with. We are putting together a plan to have some sort of gathering, lectures and celebration. So, here is my assignment.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

We ran the first National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class October to December 2011. In-between the 2011 pilot class and the first NSF class of 2012, I got a call from Congressman Dan Lipinski. Principal Investigator: Ellis Meng University of Southern California. Congressman Lipinski Gets It. Concentric Technology.

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Venture Chronicles

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Business on the run: Why California struggles to compete | The Desert Sun | MyDesert.com. Web Conferencing Review 2011 | Best Web Conference Services | Online Meeting Services – TopTenREVIEWS. Android 4.0 ‘Ice tags: blog. Was looking for a better web conferencing solution, this review was very helpful. tags: blog conferencing.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

16th September 2011 by Harrison Weber. In California? Finding the Perfect Scuba Diving job « « eBook RevieweBook Review says: September 28, 2011 at 9:30 pm. [.] Finding the Perfect Scuba Diving job « « eBook RevieweBook Review says: September 28, 2011 at 9:30 pm. [.] Copyright 2011 The Next Web.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

As of March 22 2011, approximately 275 startups and 417 investors have raised money and invested via AngelList. San Francisco, California. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. AngelList is a community of startups and investors who make fund-raising efficient. Meet the startups and investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Floodgate / Information Arbitrage do “big data&# amongst other things), or Founder Collective (consumer & ad-tech knowledge of people like Chris Dixon) or geography (Founder Collective is in Boston / NY, Rincon is the best early-stage in Southern California). 2011 is one big cocktail party all over again.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

That version failed to gain traction, as did a 2011 proposal that didn’t get far either. Introduced by Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) a few weeks ago, this is the third attempt of the bill, which Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced in 2010. To remain competitive, we need more engineers and scientists.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. Said from Orange County, California, pitched MapWide.com , which is supposed to be a collection of sites like MapDentist.com, MapDoctors.com, etc. MapWide.com. Next, Dr. S.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

Indeed, I did buy my latest startup, but the deal was done from a spare bedroom of my suburban home in Fresno, California for less than most people pay for a new car. After co-hosting MicroConf in early 2011 I was on the prowl for the next big thing. Aaaah yes…the search. And I’d been a user since 2006.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

As a result of this risk, some people like Adeo Ressi, have declared that 2011 will be the “ year of the startup default.” Convertible debt with a maturity date longer than one year creates problems for California-based investors due to licensing requirements under the California Finance Lenders Law.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Bank of Israel has also forecast 4% growth in 2010, though 2011 growth is seen slightly lower at 3.8% PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based on growth and performance milestones in 2011. The CBS further expects consumer spending to grow 4.6%

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