VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

For that, Yuga labs partnered with London based Improbable. Animoca Brands is a Hong Kong-based game software company and venture capital company founded 2014 by Yat Siu. The large corporates might invest billions, but startups have the benefit of speed, agility and courage to innovate.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

Having a teaching partner makes life a lot easier and the class improves. But it wasn’t until Ann Miura-Ko joined me as a teaching partner that this “teach the model not the plan” idea jelled. After Stanford, Ann joined Mike Maples’ Venture Capital firm Floodgate as a partner. Teaching Team.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Raising Venture Capital. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process. Raising Venture Capital (12). Raising Venture Capital (12).

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. Thank you Yotam and Tamar for choosing to partner with us! _ * See Accel 2020 Euroscape ** See Statista.

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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. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

On August 14–15, the Air Force, through AFWERX , hosted a two-day Spark Collider event at Capital Factory to bring newly awarded 19.2 SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. Really impressive & demonstrates how serious the @usairforce is about fostering true #innovation.

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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. They build a minimum feature set.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. Act Like a Startup.

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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

JULY 15, 2010

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

While this signaled that investments in technology companies could be very lucrative, both Shockley and Fairchild could only be funded through corporate partners – there was no venture capital industry. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

They also had greater and more rapid increases in valuation at successive rounds of venture capital funding. New startups need to be agile and flexible. Mistake #2: Choosing a business partner for comfort. But taking on a partner for comfort is a really bad reason to add a business partner. Be compliant.

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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

JULY 28, 2011

The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching , Venture Capital.

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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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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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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. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Venture Capital. (3).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Even here, an alternative solution is to partner with a related vendor or potential big customer for equity or royalty advances. If one of the top venture-capital firms invests in your startup, your potential for success will be boosted by the association. You need investors' domain knowledge and management expertise.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Allyson says that she and co-founder Meg knew that more traditional sources of funding like venture capital wouldn’t be the easiest avenue for a social enterprise, so they connected with an organization called Investor’s Circle. Make smart agreements with strategic partners. We can do better. Always be learning.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

No one will say work less and go home and spend time with your partner and/or family. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. No one will say that it’s time to move on. Reply What did I learn today?

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Steve Blank

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. For non-web products, get out of the building talk to 10-15 channel partners.

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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. A business model competition would emulate the “out of the building” experience of real entrepreneurs executing the customer development / business model / agile development stack.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

With a focus on seed investing in the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise and business models that harness the power of network effects, our entrepreneurs have successfully been able to raise over $200 million of financing following our initial seed investment. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise".

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.)

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

And that’s why I’m so excited that Reinvent Technology Partners (RTP) , the SPAC I co-founded with Mark Pincus and Michael Thompson, has proposed a merger with Joby. To achieve this hugely ambitious vision, Joby has always sought key strategic partners. Our model here at RTP is to deliver “venture capital at scale.”

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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. My partner David recently wrote about how investors tend to bring their own inherent biases (both good and bad) into pitch meetings with entrepreneurs. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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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

JULY 19, 2012

1) Self-Awareness & Humility - These are of course virtues that transcend venture capital or even professional pursuits broadly. This is true not only in a firm’s dealings with entrepreneurs but also with it’s limited partners and even within the firm among its partners.

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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. And they'll do this using the business model-customer development-agile development solution stack. It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. Discuss.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) 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.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2013

In 2012, I started my second company--a venture capital firm called B rooklyn Bridge Ventures. I started thinking more about flexibility, agility, and speed. Becoming an entrepreneur again has been a ton of work, but incredibly rewarding. It's not optimal, and it's not sustainable. I do yoga twice a week.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Webinar Invitation : Opportunities in Smart Wearables You’re invited to attend a webinar, hosted by Growthink co-Founder and Managing Partner Jay Turo, on Friday, September 16th at Noon ET / 9 am PT where a select group of wearable entrepreneurs and investors will share how they and their companies are winning in this incredibly dynamic space.

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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. Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock.

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