Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Which brings me back to your mobile phones. It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Disruptive innovation leads to the creative destruction of businesses that once seemed pre-eminent and secure.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Venture Capital Influence The role of venture capital (VC) has become increasingly prominent in shaping the tech startup scene. The Founder’s Journey To truly succeed, a founder needs resilience , a consistent capacity to innovate, and the agility to adapt to an ever-changing market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recent recession: Venture capital funds are still recovering from the recession. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Venture Capital ; met with the local hardware/software venture capital firm. Incubators : toured the TechArb , the engineering student accelerator, and the Michigan Venture Center in the University’s Tech Transfer Office. You Can’t Start a Fire Without A Spark – A Lack of Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Electron-based Venture Capital. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

First, the shift away from desktop computers to mobile devices meant that Intel’s power-hungry x86 processors weren’t suitable. All of Intel’s resources – fabs, manufacturing strategies, and most importantly executive mindset — were geared towards large, expensive x86 processors, not low-cost mobile cores of someone else’s design.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 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. Jonathan Swift.

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Steve Blank

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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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 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. Jonathan Swift.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 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. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To date our messaging has been clear, but we also could not ignore the fact that companies like Plain Vanilla Games took off quickly and became known as the fastest growing mobile game in history. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise". The big trend in technology today is the growth of mobile.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

With ever growing security parameter and attack vectors, enterprises are looking for ways to secure information access without compromising the business agility unleashed by the abovementioned forces.

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Security Mobile Agile Software 99

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. When it comes to mobile apps, an overly-complicated system spells disaster for even the most brilliant ideas or marketing campaigns. The world of startups is ever-changing and evolving.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Indeed, what Joby ultimately envisions is a new human mobility network that takes short-hop transit from 2D to 3D. In recent years, however, I’ve also been focusing on autonomous vehicles and 21st century human mobility start-ups like Aurora , Nauto , Nuro , and Convoy. Our model here at RTP is to deliver “venture capital at scale.”

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 21, 2012

I’ve written a reasonable amount on here about the coming opportunity in health and as regular readers will know I think the most exciting opportunity is in consumer oriented healthcare services delivered online and over mobile. Agile Diagnosis - web and mobile app for doctors to improve speed and accuracy of diagnosis.

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Agile Valuation Mobile Startup 98

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Depending upon your inventory (online, mobile, etc.) The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. The reason is that putting a sales force in the field with limited inventory is very, very expensive. you should be able to find many options for an ad sales network.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

David is the Mobility Strategist for the U.S. In his role, he is responsible for building for building and growing mobility in the U.S. He is actively accountable for driving strategic mobility initiatives while building key industry partner and relationships. Public Sector market for HP Enterprise Services.

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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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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

I wouldn’t say we’re radically reinventing venture capital and there are many firms we respect who have been innovating recently in connecting a portfolio of startups into a network , taking a different approach to how to staff a VC firm , and even the pace of VC investing. Read More ».

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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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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 co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. She has consulted for a number of startups in the mobile, Saas, and consumer health spaces. We are in the early days of a major new technology cycle driven by mobile Post-PC Devices and HTML5. HTML5 Mobile App Hackathon. startupcto

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

For entrepreneurs seeking to build big companies on a rapid trajectory, raising larger scale venture capital rounds is likely a necessity at some point after the initial seed funding. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. August 12, 2011.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Vertical applications : With the SaaS market in Europe maturing, we expect to see this category develop, and a new generation of services driven by mobile and AI to emerge, such as Shift Technology in insurance, Doctolib in health, Mambo in finance and Mirakl in retail. and Intacct for $0.85B.

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Europe Cloud API 83

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation. private investors spent $300 billion last year to fund new ventures that can move with the speed and urgency that the DoD now requires. In the U.S., And we’re not. ” Acquire at Speed.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

Chief Executive Officer Alon Samia said: “Organizations should not have to worry about their confidential documents being publicly disclosed and enterprises should have the business agility to securely share sensitive information internally and externally.&# Read more. See previous coverage of eToro on VC Cafe. SohoOS raised $1.75

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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