www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Raising Venture Capital. Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. Raising Venture Capital (12).

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. Brendan McManus said: “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [link] #startup #advice [.] I am a young entrepreneur here, absolutely dying to hear the talk.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. on Cafepress, but is now literally priceless since the copyright owner put it on his blog.) Absolutely priceless.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Web Tool of the Month: crowdSPRING – [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. The 5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses – [link].

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 30, 2022

Martina is an operating partner at Costanoa Venture Capital , an investor in both Return Path and Bolster , and I’d known Martina for several years before she joined Costanoa through Greg Sands. And she believes in Agile Marketing , which is always a plus in my book (and I find rare in marketers).

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MARCH 18, 2011

Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. We propose that early stage startups communicate in a way that didn’t exist in the 20 th century – online – collaboratively through blogs. They would: Blog their Customer Development progress as a narrative.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Venture Capital is about investing in the small, fast and agile company hoping that it will beat the large and slow incumbent. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Reply SVJ , on June 30, 2009 at 3:21 am Said: Hi Steve: I have become a recent regular reader of your blog. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Thoroughly enjoy each one of your posts. Reply Create.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. If your first resort when you have trouble raising money is to complain about New York on a tech blog, you’re really doing yourself a disservice in the relationship building area. I was there, too.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Most importantly, the phrase “ bootstrapping a startup ” translates into “growing your business with little or no venture capital or outside investment. It is also important to realize that, statistically speaking, most startups become operational without any venture capital or external funding sources.

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APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. Blog at WordPress.com. How was this possible? Reply Benjamin A.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. And how could they possibly review a blog? We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. If our goal is just to create a blog or a YouTube video as a hobby, there’s no need for this kind of rigorous process.

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Start your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal.

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APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

When venture capital teamed up with technology entrepreneurs in the 1960’s they brought with them the canonical MBA planning tool – the business plan. We’ve blogged about the combined methodologies here and here. The Business Plan ?- a roadmap for execution. You can write a business plan slide deck in your dorm or library.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. Expo SF (May.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

Tuesday, January 12th 6:30PM Agile UX at the Economist (Waitlist only) The Economist online will share their experiences, successes and lessons learned around practicing user-centered design in an Agile development process. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Blog at WordPress.com. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. And venture capital and entrepreneurship has made life even tougher for the modern corporation.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) Blog at WordPress.com. For bigger booths a good rule of thumb is to have two to four staffers for every 100 square feet of exhibit space. Even for the smallest trade show, no one shows up without booth training. Messages, themes, demo’s.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. Blog at WordPress.com. These would be the heart of ESL’s business. A-12 OXCART CIA Spyplane ESL found other ways to stay very close to its customers.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. Tendayi explained, “It's actually based on the venture capital notion of investment thesis. What products in our portfolio are declining that we need to fix?”

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

The combination of venture capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. Blank teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and blogs at steveblank.com. And they'll do this using the business model-customer development-agile development solution stack.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Blog at WordPress.com. A few successful ones do all these things. Thank you, Steve. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. Blog at WordPress.com. It’s interesting that the NY Times obituary makes no mention of Ted Hall.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Ryan Chan, founder at UpKeep said, “We created an LLC at first, but after realizing that we wanted to take on venture capital, we decided to move to a Delaware C corp.”. venture capital. Seek out venture capital funding. 11 Angel Investor Blogs You Should Be Reading. or even be a U.S. Funding Guide.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

My partners and I have blogged about some of these including Invited Guest , Golazo , Authentic , and Tribe. As many of you may know, we have a section on the NextView website called “Ethos” where we describe five key principles to how we operate. The last is Blank Canvas which I wanted to touch upon today.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Your blog is on my must read list in Google Reader, and it’s always a great read. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

It’s hard to imagine, but in the 20th century there were no startup blogs or books on startups to read, and business schools (the only places teaching entrepreneurship) believed the best thing they could teach startups was how to write a business plan. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. 2021 gave us plenty of examples for bad governance in both startups and venture capital. I’ll take the opportunity to wish readers of this blog a Shana Tova u Metukah ?? Need for Speed, indeed. Are we about to experience a flood in funding in 2023?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Blog at WordPress.com. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.) Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Readers of this blog know that entrepreneurship is rife with failure, and a big part of the Lean Startup method is to pivot rather than stubbornly launch and hope for the best. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. How do you know when to pivot and when to persevere?

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