Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The demands of the role often add up to a full schedule that can drive even the best product managers to lose sight of their market and their customers. I might have pursued a humanities education at a “ kumbaya college ” in California, but it’s only human to be at least a little bit selfish! getting stuck inside four walls.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2012 NYU partnered with the City University of NY (CUNY) and Columbia University, and in early 2013 they won a grant from the National Science Foundation to build the Innovation Corps in New York City and jointly create the the NYC Regional Innovation Node (NYCRIN). A few of the students wrote blogs about their experience in the classes.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). Given all the demands on your time, the hours spent educating a consultant regarding your business are costly. Cheers, Brian.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

You bump into the person you’ve always wanted to chat with or your perfect business development partner who can “make” you. My partner was in product management at Demand Media. He said it’s really impactful both to help the founders clarify their vision and to more effectively communicated it to others. Don’t wing it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

If the VP of Sales doesn’t think that generating end user awareness and ultimately demand for them is worthwhile, then one of you is an idiot. Partners Booths While your booth may be small, some of your potential or existing partners may have much larger ones, in much more visible locations. Hope it’s not you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. Digital Response.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Theres also eHow parent Demand Media, streaming video site Hulu, car-shopping site TrueCar and one dominant player from Silicon Valley: Google. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Visit our Partners: USA WEEKEND. Weve reached out to the schools."

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The report details some of the high profile success stories in Vancouver: In the early days Slack’s founder estimated the market for the software to be $100 million, which they exceeded in just three years—and have now become the fastest growing business software of all time. Broadband.tv com for $575 million. ” Montreal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He the CEO and co-creator of business and let’s just face it, a sport called Crossnet. Me and our founders, we actually aren’t volleyball players at all. So my friend Mike, our co founder and partner, he graduated from Northeastern and he called me up one day. California, Texas, Florida.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The report details some of the high profile success stories in Vancouver: In the early days Slack’s founder estimated the market for the software to be $100 million, which they exceeded in just three years—and have now become the fastest growing business software of all time. Broadband.tv com for $575 million. ” Montreal.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Then they move into demanding a person who demanded excellence of himself and others around him. I mean, there a lot of people that felt absolutely very demanding. And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. We have struggled to keep up with UbiGro film demand, and so we are planning to significantly expand our production capacity this year. What is your competitive advantage? Our materials are very special, and hard to make. Plants love it.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. Students/Teams.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2023

And so we were driving from California to Canada in an rv and I read the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I think, you know, over a two 10, day two, no, I used this two week trip. And maybe somebody could be another partner. 19:41): It's projects on demand, but it's also a pod of team members. I think I read the book six times.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In fact, the only time you’ve been in greater demand than you are now was when Disney was making those saccharine “princess&# films. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. Apps are for adults, right?

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Hearpreneur

MAY 12, 2015

I had co-founded my first company in the music software space back when digital meant taking something that was formerly analog and rethinking it. So when we co-founded Babbel in Berlin in 2007, we just wanted to develop something better than the status quo. That was almost one year ago and I would not have it any other way!

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Jered Lawson , co-founder of Pie Ranch , a 14-acre farm on California’s San Mateo coast that is reconnecting people to their food. Chase Adam , founder of Watsi , is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. Jered Lawson. Chase Adam. This is it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. TechCrunch article. Total: $41.0mm plus undisclosed Series A.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. Like a parent, Y Combinator protected and guided a group of eight applicants who were chosen to be part of the Y Combinator Summer Founders Program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Yes, we’ll always want to encourage higher quality, but it won’t matter if we have crappy demand. Presented by John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and The Deck Network. Yes Radisson Austin – We can count on an abundance of news and information in a media-saturated age. Tuesday, March 16th.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. on demand billing and fraud management. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Recurly â??

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

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