Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Carpe Diem.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It It would have been a lot more challenging to create a business like this up there," OBrien says. Theres also eHow parent Demand Media, streaming video site Hulu, car-shopping site TrueCar and one dominant player from Silicon Valley: Google.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Nigel and Vaugn Caldon , co-founders of BallStar social network for basketball players. Here’s how they knew their idea could be a business. We had to back-end our way into, figuring out, where is the business (model) in that? Small Business Administration , and Hillary Hartley , deputy executive director of 18F.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I think this sentiment has given angel groups a bad name. An entrepreneur will pitch their business plan to what they think is a group of angel investors and will get a number of follow-up calls afterwards, but they are pitches for services not investment interest. ProfessorVC.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Needless to say, this isn’t a business model that works in the pandemic world. I’m sure its customers wonder, “Why is an organic grocer named RydeOn?”. Frequently, however, you need to pivot your business model and find new ways to make money. Business model evolution is the rule, not the exception.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Ok, so I think Im the last guy in Silicon Valley to start a blog. I thought Id just go with a simple blog name like Steve Bennet, but wasnt available on Blogger so I had to come up with something else. ProfessorVC. Thursday, January 17, 2008. ► January. (1). ► 2010.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. With 2 or 4 new investments per week that Right Side is projecting, it will be challenging enough to remember the names of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio, let along help build companies. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market. Your Name *.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

All the good domain names were taken, all the good ideas were being implemented. If Id bought just a handful of the "best of the rest" domain names that were available at the time (for a whopping $70 each), I probably could have just retired right then. No business model, either. What was different this time? And Google?

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. We do have certain angels aggressively marketing themselves (Good to see my former student, Dave McClure, making a name for himself as part of the PayPal Mafia and " Super Angel " crowd), many others have no interest in publicizing their net worth or investing activities. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. However, it will be under a different name as it may be hard to get profs to cooperate with a site called Rate-the-Test and the service will offer much more than previous exams.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Press and analysts characterized LinkedIn in one of two ways: “LinkedIn is an interesting niche that might be worth paying attention to” or “LinkedIn is the Friendster for business”. The general rule is one business model drives the business.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m not afraid to pick up the phone, cold call someone, use LinkedIn to find someone who’s recently left a company that might be considered competitive and ask them for advise around the business model and marketplace. How can we attract attention from investors and press in silicon valley without moving there?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. Title: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

You have to know your business model. Most startups launch before theyve figured out what business theyre in. Who doesnt want to see their name in print? In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. Gattiker said.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2018

Some fun examples are, of the big names out there, look at Amazon, for instance, which started out as a book seller way back when. John Jantsch: One of the challenges I see, and I’m strategizing with a startup right now that I think has a decent idea but no business model. Now it’s in the world domination category.

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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. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

My name is Crystal Williams, and I maintain a small business blog called Babeofbusiness.com. – Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. broken vc model. Business Culture. Business Model Canvas. Business plan. business symbiosis. Social CRM.

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