Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

And since there was no Venture Capital in the 1950′s/’60′s where was the money coming from? The most extreme case (and my personal favorite) was by Armstrong who managed to create a full single conversion superheterodyne receiver all using a single vacuum tube! This startup boom seemed to come out of nowhere.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

When you are presenting to a VC there are two conversations going on – the one you are presenting and the one that investors are thinking as they are listening to your presentation. (If They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. About VC Cafe.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Pay with a Tweet” and Other Growth Hacking Examples | Venture Capital Cafe – [link]. Will 2013 be the year of conversion optimisation? Is Agile Marketing the Future of Search in 2013?

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 30, 2022

I can always picture the person narrating the book, or hear their voice saying the words, I can periodically see their personality showing through the words on the page, and books bring out so much more detail than I’d ever get from a conversation.

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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. 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. or even be a U.S.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. I find myself having similar conversations and really appreciate that you’ve written and shared this. link] leehower.

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Steve Blank

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. Just had a conversation today with a student taking Steve’s class. The board raises a collective eyebrow.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Comments, help, suggestions and conversation can happen 24/7. Kathryn Gould of Foundation Capital and Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate also want to try it. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

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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. There are user groups, gaming meetups, meetups in security or agile development—lots of places entrepreneurs rarely tread. I was there, too. How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It’s a world that is characterized by the ability of a startup to be agile and relevant to keep up with market shifts in a crowded media environment. Companies like Uber and Lyft created a new conversation in the world of transportation, one that left the world questioning if car ownership is truly necessary.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs create success by being agile and by making effective but quick decisions based on what they have in front of them. The “dictator” part simply means that you have to recognize when it’s time for debate and conversation to end and a decision to be made.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The Customer is a Genius Then instead of talking about our products he segued the conversation into their products. And soon the conversation were about architectural tradeoffs and then how customers didn’t appreciate the elegant designs and how the world was going to hell in a handbasket because of these commodity microprocessors.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020. Most importantly, the phrase “ bootstrapping a startup ” translates into “growing your business with little or no venture capital or outside investment.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

If you look at the top 3 online retailers by conversion rate, none of these are award-winning designs : [link] [link] [link] However, they convert ~25% of visitors to customers. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) That’s 10x what many websites convert.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. It’s a fascinating time to see content industries in action, because they are facing a constantly changing landscape and are really trying to keep up. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. The lunch conversation was an interesting data point to add to a hypothesis I’ve had. Great founders live for these moments.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Just like the low conversion rate from going to bars (unless it’s for that one night interaction), this is the same for finding a co-founder. Every conversation that I had was very high quality. We had comparable energy levels and great chemistry during our first conversation. In Conversation. This was the ‘one’!

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

What I am most proud of is what I hope will be a significant contribution to our collective conversation about entrepreneurship. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. But the book is much more than just stories. What really constitutes product/market fit?

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 21, 2013

” I’ve been thinking a lot about deal selection in Venture Capital , so this meme is particularly interesting to me. This leads these investors to not drive aggressively towards a decision, rather keep a conversation going slowly to maintain optionality if/when someone really good does decide to lead.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 17, 2011

We end up making snap judgements about people and decide in a 30 minute conversation or presentation that “I like that guy!” And in a ridiculously competitive environment for talent, agility is a great asset and differentiator. Both in hiring and in firing. No need to drag things along.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. And the converse is true; Palm would have failed, burning through all their cash, using Handspring’s strategy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

And I started to panic as it dawns on me that this conversation is occurring 30 times the 300 people in each of the 30 squadrons on this airbase. Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Can we go to the bathroom when the gravity is turned off?”)

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 29, 2005

He was scrambling around asking for wireless keys and looking for ethernet jacks, while I sat there and tried to engage him in conversation. Startups require entrepreneurs to be agile and adept to respond to quickly changing market needs. I had a meeting last week where an entrepreneur insisted on showing me a demo first.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. Conversely, plenty of folks who write code in more “acceptable” languages/platforms are lazy bastards who have no concept of the underlying complexities of their chosen tools.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

7PM: Agile UX at Lab49 (Hosted by Pivotal Labs). Kristie Weatherford will talk about her experience integrating Agile + UX for Lab49 and her previous engagements. Kristie Weatherford will talk about her experience integrating Agile + UX for Lab49 and her previous engagements. crowd-sourced ones. RSVP: [link]. RSVP: [link].

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