Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. We have a portfolio of more than 500 brands and 4000 products and people invite us into their lives more 1.8 in developing these new models. billion times a day.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. In Q2 of 2012, 362 million mobile phones shipped and it is increasingly rare to see business users who don’t have smartphones or tablet devices.

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Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

I’d like to take a step back and discuss the significance of IP as a component of the overall value that founders intend to create as they grow the company. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? What kind of risk do we run of being put out of business by others’ IP rights ?

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Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. In Q2 of 2012, 362 million mobile phones shipped and it is increasingly rare to see business users who don’t have smartphones or tablet devices.

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Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SMALL BUSINESS. September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Replay the event.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

After CB Insights’ investigation yielded such an alarming figure of failure, the company decided to compile more than 100 post mortem letters from different startup founders to discover the reason for the failures. Having a good product but a wrong business model. Why do so many companies fail? Losing focus.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. the America that is not just white men.). In the first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. The single biggest mistake I have made was locating my business in a town that could not care less about craft beer,” says Ben. There’s no one model—or one business plan—for breweries.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

RCSMs premise is that they can reach an investment decision (and valuation) based on an application completed by the founders and take gut feel out of the decision process. Can't wait until you have some actual portfolio results to analyze and compare against Cambridge returns. ► 2012. (1). September 27, 2011 5:51 PM.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research , says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. The single biggest mistake I have made was locating my business in a town that could not care less about craft beer,” says Ben. Do they have access to contingency capital?

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Hats off to Jon Benhamou and Clement Buyse, the two founders, and to the wider Peopledoc team for this achievement! It’s only the perseverance, grit and vision of the founders that makes it possible. Sometimes companies get to the point of acquisition in a straight line; most of the time, however, they don’t.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents â??

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. I personally enjoy the earliest stages and building a portfolio of start-ups and entrepreneurial teams. ► 2012. (1).

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. I first met Jeff about 8 years ago when he was finishing his first year at the Stanford GSB and was beginning to raise money for a business plan he developed for a secondary market ticket exchange. ► 2012. (1).

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As December and 2012 draws to a close, I've decided to weigh in with my thoughts on the impending (or not depending on which blogs you read) Series A Crunch. If not, move on and join another team or come up with another idea with the same or different co-founders. If it works, great. With my academic hat on, this is wonderful.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The formula will be based on the founders experience, schools they attended and other background information to gauge the likelihood of success. This is not far from the Y Combinator model , except they put a lot of time and energy into working with the entrepreneurs. ► 2012. (1). No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Ill share a few points about how we were successful, but most of the credit goes to Benjamin Wayne , founder and CEO of Fliqz, a passionate, strategic and tactical executive. ► 2012. (1). From first hand experience, we certainly felt the market conditions and the funding process was much more difficult than anticipated.

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