2011 and Venture Capital

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger

Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology.

Lean

Lean Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Channel

Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

As it turned out, rather than run me out of town on a rail, the two venture capital firms that had lost $12 million in my failed startup actually asked me to work with them. No one ever sets out to fail. But being afraid to fail means you’ll be afraid to try. Playing it safe will get you nowhere.

Philadelphia

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Will was honored at the White House as part of the 2011 Empact 100 list , for his work as a young entrepreneur. Will : Yes, and that was my first brutal intro into the difficulties of raising venture capital where I lived. . Steve : There is probably is no venture capital for 50 miles, if not 500 miles. .

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Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur

The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

This was followed by another $500 million investment (along with Goldman Sachs) in 2011, at a $50 billion valuation. In May 2011, RenRen—the Facebook of China —had a first day valuation of $7.4 Filed under: Venture Capital. In December 2010, Youku—the YouTube of China —went public, with a valuation of $4.4

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi

New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. If you can’t see the slide presentation above, click here.). 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age.

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Now Hear This

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.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley California Vertical Customer Development

Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

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 SBIR/STTR program represents a critical source of seed funding for U.S. In fact, half of all seed stages in tech companies in the U.S.

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SBIR Maryland Lean Seed Stage

Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

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. This leads to two key points: Point 1: You have to fight – and win- on two fronts (both outside and inside), in order to succeed in corporate venturing.

Startup

Startup Business Model Lean Russia

Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

This has been nearly a 4-year journey,” said Schonthal who prior to moving back to Chicago in 2011 had been working in healthcare venture capital in San Diego. It Takes a Village. One of the noticeable things about the San Diego health tech community is that it feels like a community. It has density,” he said.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

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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Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE

China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Lessons Learned.

Programming

Programming Technical Review SBIR China

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. How can corporations work more closely with universities? How is the way that universities teach entrepreneurship evolving? What changes have you seen in the last 15 years?

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Incubator Lean Programming Government

China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Lessons Learned.

Programming

Programming Technical Review SBIR China

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank has spent 20+ years in technology companies and venture capital, working at Lucent , Sun Microsystems , Apple and NeXT. We’re addressing the) same problems but we wanted to solve the problem in a much more scalable way so we saw, around 2011 … the Internet was going to support 3D natively. …

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Investment Bankers

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Steve Blank

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

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Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Now Hear This

Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

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