Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

The implications for entrepreneurs is that each of these (market risk versus invention risk,) require radically different financing models, a different type of venture investor, different timing for hiring sales and marketing, etc. How would that change my company strategy?

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

It is a pretty narrow filter of the 750+ companies that completed the 2010 CompStudy survey, but there are 55 rounds of financing to look at…enough to be a meaningful dataset I think. What is interesting is that you see a peak pre-money valuation of $3.16 Bookmark the permalink. I’m intrigued though.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Extract and Archive Your Followers. As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed. Question about the Extract and Archive Followers Sheet. Money and Finance Lists. Or re-save the scripts from Tools + Script Manager. Spreadsheet details: Public scripts?

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The first thing I noticed was that the vast majority (76%) of financings have a “one x&# preference. And yes, some financings don’t have any liquidation preferences at all (although that’s actually a pretty small number). Just make the price right. One point to takeaway from [.]

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Lets start with finances. As the businessperson, financing is just one of the things you bring to the table. Tags: startupcto. links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. General news carries the lowest CPCs whereas specific verticals like healthcare and finance command higher CPCs. Tags Amazon. Disruption: David Pakman's Blog. Chronicling the undoing of traditional media. Contact Me. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Many if not most seed investments in startups these days are done in the form of convertible debt, which is a loan that can convert to equity in a subsequent financing. The whole point is to provide a fast, easy form of financing that avoids wrestling over valuation. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Finance Jobs.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. Money and Finance Lists.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Finances were just one part of the story. One of them is clearly significant outside financing, which we’d explicitly chosen to do without. this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.].

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. tags: business startup entrepreneurship interesting people legal plagiarism investment funding strategy) [.]

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Entrepreneurs are fearless, persistent and uninhibited about asking – whether it’s asking to assemble a team, get financing, sell customers, etc. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] or whatever is necessary to build a company. Get out of the building and meet people.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Tags: socalcto startupcto. It is helping with recruiting by leveraging my networks and experience in a particular domain. All Rights Reserved.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact © 2010 [sb] Startup Baltimore. Tags: startupcto. All rights reserved.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Other articles you might like The Kayakist Entrepreneur (2) Free online finance classes for entrepreneurs (0) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups , Startup tips and tricks One Comment → Hendro permalink Been there, done that. =) Agree with you that you have to feel the pain to internalize the lesson. What do you think?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

AUGUST 31, 2009

We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Today I stumbled upon an article that lists 8 free courses for entrepreneurs that you can find on the MIT website. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you can do it for $5000 to $15,000, you’re likely to be able to finance it with a deferred payment or a loan from friends and family. Tags: startupcto. What will it cost to build your project? It depends on the scope of the project, of course. But let me put it this way. Blog at WordPress.com.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Tags: startupcto. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. Date first. Buy it here.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. link] Categories: Start Ups Tags: consultant, cto, Engineering, start-up Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [.]

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.]

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As your business grows, you will likely need more and more time from your accountant and at some point you’ll hire a full time person to handle the day-to-day, likely combined with roles as office manager or finance (not to be confused with accounting). You must balance short term constraints (human, capital, etc.)

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

If you hit a dead-end in both finding a partner and financing, don’t forget you can learn to program and start the project yourself. Tags: startupcto. If you don’t have enough skills to offer or just can’t find the right match, remember that you can always add to what you bring to the table. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

You literally have to take your vision of the opportunity and against all rational odds assemble financing, and a team to help you execute. You literally have to take your vision of the opportunity and against all rational odds assemble financing, and a team to help you execute. And that’s just to get started.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

It tells the finance, marketing and sales teams nothing about how to uniquely market and sell in each type of startup, nor how to predict the resources needed for success. Reply Squawking Tech » Blog Archive » Why The iPad Will Be A Success, In the Long Term , on February 7, 2010 at 12:12 pm Said: [.]

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The data set is about 1,200 rounds of financing for US tech companies that completed the 2010 CompStudy survey. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups , Technology , Venture Capital and tagged angel capital , technology , venture capital. the top right box of the chart). Bookmark the permalink. — Topsy.com [.]

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank (tags: startups business) [.] Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Liquidity – How? M&A, IPO?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch. There are a couple of good reasons a company should consider bootstrapping its market entry. Best of luck!

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In other companies it may be that manufacturing or finance is the sharp end of the stick. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. I’ve encountered finance organizations with budget processes designed to simplify their lives, but not the rest of the company’s. Well said.

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Altgate

AUGUST 20, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Venture Capital and tagged angel financing , entrepreneur , founder , fund raising , negotiation , startup , term sheet , venture capital. Bookmark the permalink. ← Why Don’t Universities Teach Sales? Migrating…lots of broken stuff → Comments are closed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance and planning. Each of these GM divisions each focused on its own day-to-day operations and with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. Sloan had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MARCH 24, 2010

from a.net developer point of view (1) How to redirect all your pages from www to root domain using ruby on rails (3) My frustrations (4) Free online finance classes for entrepreneurs (0) From → Startup tips and tricks No comments yet Click here to cancel reply. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MARCH 24, 2010

We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right? All rights are reserved to the original copyright holders where applicable.

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Altgate

MARCH 31, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged Boston , business analyst , compensation , employment opportunity , job.   It's a business analyst position on a new project at J. Robert Scott, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments.  Bookmark the permalink.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 6, 2010

Other articles you might like Not all good opportunities are good to take (1) Free online finance classes for entrepreneurs (0) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups 2 Comments → Blake Jennelle permalink Great post Aymeric. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS The Option Pool Shuffle by Nivi on April 10th, 2007 “Follow the money card!&# – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. This can be done on any financing or M&A event.

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