Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. Reducing Startup Risk.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Here are some recent great posts that I’ve come across that generally fall in the intersection of startups and CTOs. They have a related post: Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs , but I think that looking at my Startup Metrics post provides a bit broader set of metrics to consider.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Validating Business Ideas Before Finding Technical Cofounders – Forbes.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We’d also like to highlight two notable investors who participated in our first close: David Johnston began investing in Bitcoin in 2012. But we never lost the finance bug. The fund returned ~8x in 24 months.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

I get approached often by tech startups looking for their first outside funding. They come in lots of different flavors and stages of fundability. This article is based on my experiences and the typical mistakes I see every week in startup land. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 15, 2015

There was an article recently in VentureBeat about how much control the startup CEO founder has over his/her board of directors. Many factors come into play in early board formation including the founder’s goals, investors, cofounders, early appointees, family, friends. Which ones should be advisors instead?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. Broadly speaking, it suggested that female-led startups are a good financial bet.

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