Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

But to do it, you need to actually have a sustainable business model. Starting a business is too risky. Prior to founding Carely , Michael Eidsaune earned his MBA in finance and spent several years in investment management, eventually earning his level 1 CFA certification. Our revenue model was wrong.

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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. Does any of this match your experience or people you know? of total entrepreneurs born in China and India is not even close to what entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley looks like.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Last year we had a “DeFi” summer, where peer-to-peer finance was being conducted through crypto products worldwide. When I launched FuturePerfect Ventures in 2014, it was on the thesis that new business models would be created from blockchain and cryptoeconomics.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

You can conduct group interviews, get your candidate “liquored up” (not a recommendation), and even have a trial period on the job to see if there’s a good match. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Corporate innovation needs a culture that matches and supports it. The values and basic beliefs of working in this crazy startup were embodied in the phrase that we were, “The Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” It needs to be a careful, calculated process coordinated with HR and Finance. to the new values.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2010

By getting out of the building on a team project, the class helped students viscerally understand that a startup is a search for a profitable business model. Students formed teams, came up with a business idea then talked to customers, vendors and sales channel partners to validate their business model.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. Great businesses can be built off this network, starting with matching talent and opportunity. Steer into your investors’ objections.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. In it we explicitly state: “The real value creation comes when innovative technology enables innovative products and services with innovative business models….What

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. Identifying and matching themes are key if you’re looking for a way in at Foundry Group. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

What’s the concept of all of this that you’re talking about and then in financing? I just thought it was a good question to set the context of lean planning and when somebody should use it, because so many of our webinar attendees are in the process of getting financing. Are we doing a business loan? This is Magda.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. It’s free.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Last week I gave a Silicon Valley VC’s take on the company pitches on Shark Tank as the new season four started, and it was well received. The entrepreneurs believed that they could build the business faster with more capital, so it’s not an unreasonable thing to give up more dilution for more money at the same valuation.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The fall semester at SJSU started this week and had the first class meeting of my Entrepreneurial Finance class, which was overflowing with students standing, sitting on the floor and begging to get in. billion in 2009, which matches the amount invested by VCs. Angies List or AngelList?

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. No companys future ever matches their projections and it is the assumptions and how the entrepreneur understands the market and sees the opportunity evolving that we care about. As I am quoted in the article, it is easy to pick holes in a business plan. ProfessorVC.

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