Steve Blank

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. In some cases the accelerator provides initial funding themselves.) Carlos stirred his coffee.

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What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking

Steve Blank

To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). What does this mean for startup founders? ——-.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Angels & Crowdfunding : Coincident with the capital efficient movement came the current wave of angel investors, this time armed with the ability to collectively fund startups to the point of meaningful value creation on modest amounts of capital. Focus on capital efficient, scalable startups and founders.

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Don’t Give Away Your Board Seats

Steve Blank

I had a group of ex-students out to the ranch who were puzzling over a dilemma – they’ve been working hard on their startup, were close at finding product/market fit and had been approached by Oren, a potential angel investor. The team wasn’t sure what to do. But how do we get the advice we need?

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

These people are important and useful in the engineering of a tech cluster; as startup coaches, angel investors and advocates for the community. While entrepreneurship in Bend was talked about, and everyone read the same blogs, there was no central place founders could get focused and intense coaching and mentorship.

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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

While the posts were theory I was a bit surprised when John Selep , an early-stage investor, approached me and said he was actually using the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) in practice. Is Prescriptive – offers founders a “what-you-need-to-do-next” framework to reach a higher level of readiness. Here’s John’s story.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

However, in meeting some of the sports startups one of the things that struck me is that most of the founders who said they wanted to grow big hadn’t given much thought about how they would go about building size and scale. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.

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