VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. 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.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 4, 2011
I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Venture Capital. The country needs to build a deeper Venture Capital industry.
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The Next Web
MARCH 2, 2014
This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. So you learn to be agile, to take it in your stride, to pivot based on the shortcomings of your competitors. Sure, you can increase your luck by growing a network of great people and constantly learning skills.
Steve Blank
JUNE 10, 2010
Once they found a profitable business model they realized that scale required external venture capital to fuel rapid expansion. With venture capital came accountability to board members, forecasts, and other people’s agendas. Large Company Entrepreneurship. All searching for a sustainable business model.
Steve Blank
JULY 6, 2010
One of those students, Shawn Carolan , is now a partner at Menlo Ventures. When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. He became the first venture investor and “present at the creation.”
Cracking the Code
JUNE 24, 2021
Some of the world’s largest, most forward-looking companies are already benefiting from the workforce agility enabled by Gloat’s AI-powered platform. For the first time in my life, I saw what it was like to be a small employee in a large company – there was no transparency, no visibility, and no agility. We’re excited about our future.
Cracking the Code
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Recent SaaS trends and the Accel Euroscape of the 100 most promising companies in Europe and Israel This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. From a geographic standpoint, the UK and Israel lead the pack with 20 companies each, followed by France with 18 and Germany with 8.
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