Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. While Beijing has VC’s and Angel investors happy to write a check there aren’t as many angels/VCs in China versus US per capita.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. I contend that we are approaching the early part of the mania phase. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. While Beijing has VC’s and Angel investors happy to write a check there aren’t as many angels/VCs in China versus US per capita.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

David Lerner is an entrepreneur, angel investor and director of entrepreneurship at Columbia University. He is also an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School , and an angel investor hailed as one of New York City’s top 100 early-stage investors. Dave Lerner.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

If you’re in a technology cluster like Silicon Valley you may be able to attract ad hoc advice from experienced investors. But very little of it is formal, and almost none of it approaches the 50-100x experience level of professional investors. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. Understanding the motivations of these different groups help make sense out of the bubble chart below.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

If you’re in a technology cluster like Silicon Valley you may be able to attract ad hoc advice from experienced investors. But very little of it is formal, and almost none of it approaches the 50-100x experience level of professional investors. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees.

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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

JUNE 2, 2011

When the boardroom is bits, angel-funded startups can get experienced advice – independent of geography. An angel investor or VC can multiply their reach and/or depth. It also provides visibility for a deep look at their data over time and facilitates delivery of feedback and advice. 4) Geography.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Lean Angels. Along with Lean VC’s a new class of angel investors has emerged. YCombinator, Techstars, et al, have been described as incubators but in reality they are the new “Lean Angels.” These angels “get&# the sea change happening in Internet Commerce.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Angel investor Don Lucas had his office above ours. Larry was loathe to sell any of the company stock; he generally took a dim view of VCs and preferred to bootstrap. Sequoia Capital eventually invested just a little in us). I remember Larry telling me that every time we borrowed his conference room we had to pay Don $50.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

They didn’t always keep their angel investors informed about the changes they were making and it nearly cost them: We followed every test and experimental process from the get-go but we didn’t tell our investors we were doing that.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

At the low-end this might come from friends, family or angel investors. At the high-end pre-seed angel funds might invest. Team: As you’re raising money from friends, family or angels, investors in this round are betting mostly about you and your team. Traction: For a seed round investors want to focus on traction.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

They didn’t always keep their angel investors informed about the changes they were making and it nearly cost them: We followed every test and experimental process from the get-go but we didn’t tell our investors we were doing that.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

& Raising Capital Pitch Perfect 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor Raising Money Using Customer Development Due Diligence Checklist Term Sheet Archives (from Brad [.] Reply Raising capital - The 50 or so things you should read first | JonBischke.com , on November 9, 2009 at 10:59 am Said: [.] &

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The Investment Readiness Level (IRL) The collective wisdom of venture investors (including angel investors, and venture capitalists) over the past decades has been mostly subjective. We propose we can do the same for new ventures – provide a simple and visual way to share a common understanding of startup readiness status.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Stanford professors were the first angels investors. [.] Reply Innovation Ecosystems Network » The Next Silicon Valley , on August 17, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

In addition, he is the founding chair and active member of TiE Angels , one of the most active Angel investor groups in the Valley with 140 members and 26 investments in the last three years, mostly in the B2B space.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco.

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