Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan transformed corporate management into a real profession, and its stellar example was the continuous and relentless execution of the GM business model (until its collapse 50 years later). But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again in what would become Silicon Valley.

Michigan 268

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

The vibe of Bend is appealing, unique and unpretentious given the number of successful business, tech and professional athlete transplants who call it home. It’s home to a small but growing tech community that has been developing over the past decade, and that’s what piqued my interest. Silicon Valley Transplants.

Silicon Valley 312

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 312

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. Secret History of Silicon Valley. agile engineering.

Open Source 335

Open Source Silicon Valley Lean Customer Development 335

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a business lawyer working with startups in technology and digital media every day, I’m fortunate to have a front-row seat as entrepreneurs create value out of thin air. What can we do on the public policy front to turn the United States into one giant Silicon Valley?

Silicon Valley 187

Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. For example, I love the idea of prototyping.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. For example, I love the idea of prototyping.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Whether or not you’re raising money for your business, getting advice from venture capitalists can be invaluable. But, getting in the doors of a Sand Hill Road VC in Silicon Valley can be an incredibly difficult undertaking. Follow AVC on Twitter @avc, f ollow Fred on Twitter @fredwilson. Above the Crowd.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. Community marketing is the best way to leverage Rock Star customers. Even if you’re a global firm, it’s a good idea to restore community marketing. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review 154

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. Why It’s “Silicon” Valley. It might be its most important.

Engineer 305

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 305

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. Deciding between the applicants, their lobbyists, the environmental community, the staff, the coastal act and the law. But why serve your community, state or country? See through it.

California 321

California Silicon Valley Michigan San Francisco 321

Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday. Now he is slated to enter Booth at the University of Chicago in the fall.

Finance 135

Finance Congo Chicago Cambodia 135

Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. Mainstream Entrepreneurship.

Silicon Valley 305

Silicon Valley Lean Utah Customer Development 305

thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The growing NFT infrastructure allowed those that were not able to find markets for their art before to monetize their work through online global communities. When I launched FuturePerfect Ventures in 2014, it was on the thesis that new business models would be created from blockchain and cryptoeconomics.

Global 40

Global Community Africa Marketing 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

Unfortunately, your next stage of scaling the business is fraught with potential oversights that can lead to the downfall of even the best-laid business plans. With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics.

Silicon Valley 215

Silicon Valley Bankruptcy Metrics Valuation 215

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.

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Acquisition Warrant Customer Term Sheet 304

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. The technology has been highly acclaimed in the mobile device community as a way to let users type in multiple, especially non-Latin, languages. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Team: Learn2Win.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But a thesis centered around network effects isn’t static – and isn’t limited to any particular sector, business model, or platform. From Fund I and now to Fund III, we have been able to serve as an important bridge between Silicon Valley and other tech ecosystems. We invest across North America.

Silicon Valley 127

Silicon Valley North America San Francisco LP 127

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Are you new to the Austin Startup Community?

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Austin Texas Cofounder 89

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ). Result: Hell yes. The Educator/Sponsor Class.

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 128

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. The Free Rider Problem. Desi Sauda.

Business Model 122

Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. What do all these groups in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community (DOD/IC) have in common? Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA. North Korea.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David is also struggling with the notion of his community taking the transactions offline. Well, eLance has experienced similar problems, and I asked David to concentrate on communicating to his user base of service providers the value of building a reputation through references and reviews/customer feedback.

India 116

India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ). Result: Hell yes. The Educator/Sponsor Class.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. 11:53] Is there anything about what’s going on right now in the current business environment that you think makes us a strong time? [15:25] Go to inbound.com to get your ticket today. (01:03):

South Africa 66

South Africa Africa Global Silicon Valley 66

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

In cohort one, 25 teams chosen from a field of 100+, worked fulltime for eight weeks to take their ideas from a “cocktail napkin” business idea to a viable, scalable business model. Then the coaches joined their teams for three days of business model development, feedback, and training.

Colombia 321

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 321

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I got smarter about the world outside of Silicon Valley, met some wonderful people who made me feel part of their family and shared some thoughts about entrepreneurship. This post is a personal view of what I saw in what I call “Chilecon Valley” — in no way does it represent the views of the fine institutions I teach at.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

. ———– The National Institutes of Health recognizes that Life Science/Health Care commercialization has two components: the science/technology, and the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

San Diego 261

San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

These seem like small things, but they turn out to be really important, because as you’re pivoting, changing your business model and changing your product, there need to be some things that are stable to keep people on the same page. We tried to sell inside Silicon Valley, so these were all tech companies.

Cofounder 274

Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur EC2 274

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

These seem like small things, but they turn out to be really important, because as you’re pivoting, changing your business model and changing your product, there need to be some things that are stable to keep people on the same page. We tried to sell inside Silicon Valley, so these were all tech companies.

Cofounder 274

Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur EC2 274

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

In cohort one, 25 teams chosen from a field of 100+, worked fulltime for eight weeks to take their ideas from a “cocktail napkin” business idea to a viable, scalable business model. Then the coaches joined their teams for three days of business model development, feedback, and training.

Colombia 271

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 271

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Like Slack, Canva launched with two things in its favor: it was different from anything around at the time (a design platform for non-designers), and it had a freemium business model. One of these colleagues happened to be author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. Unfortunately Tracy would learn first hand not much later that the business model has two components: both buying and selling. She became part of the fabric of her community. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian.

Silicon Valley 363

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur Startup 363

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Instead, students need to write two blog posts, comment on two of their classmate's posts and participate in a business model excercise modeled after Steve Blank's "business model canvass" exercise at Stanford. He observed that the start-up community is all the richer due to the contributions of MBAs.

Technical Review 47

Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley Boston 47

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. The VC business took off with the rapid growth of the semiconductor business. Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Super-angel investors are a new category of investors (like Mike Maples Jr. ), closer to venture capitalists, who are perceived to be more sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley and other technology centers (also called micro-VCs).

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Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Silicon Valley Angel Investor 274

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. They want to understand the role of community in a person’s purchasing power, which is crucial to their business model.

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Kenya Lean Community Africa 60