Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. ” So I wrote a 9-page charter of what I thought we should do.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. I’ve been on the side of your potential partners, and I know that often too much ‘persistence’ is offputting. Oh, and we had no installed customer base. u have to be creative, too.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I was mortified with the dressing down in front of my friends as well as new employees I barely knew. Law firm partners often have anger management issues, but the thing about anger is that it is not always wrong to be angry — if somebody is angry at you because you did something wrong, then that anger is valid.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The goal would be six-fold: Integrate adjuncts as partners with their entrepreneurship centers . An adjunct is a non- tenure track , part-time employee. I’ve been an adjunct for almost 18 years, and I still remember the onboarding process at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He was right.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. What vendors can you partner with to give you discounted or free sample products for your box?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. No one will say work less and go home and spend time with your partner and/or family. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

In my entrepreneurship journey, I’ve made incredible retail partners from many countries, and eventually landed my own show on HSN for 19 years. But I also leaned that is actually ok. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California. I don't think I'm cut out to being an employee.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. Iconversations [guest].

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Where can I read about the training to give for employees who will be at a booth?

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

When was C4A founded and how is it structured – a non-profit with both employees and volunteers? But our hundreds of alumni — the fellows, employees, and government partners who have worked with us over the past six years — are a truly powerful movement that’s growing incredibly fast.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner. And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. I'm from Stockton, California. So, Lenore started something called the SF New Deal.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. The second was when a Southern Californian aircraft company decided to break into the missiles and space field by partnering with Stanford electronics expertise.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Codeacademy.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I can’t tell you how often a client calls me up and says something like this: “Matt, we have this great new consultant who is going to make introductions to us to [pick type of business partner]. Also, there is a related issue of ensuring that a contractor is actually a contractor and not really a misclassified employee.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. California.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Employee Benefits. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices. One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. Financing A Small Business. Business Taxes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

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! I pitched potential teammates to join me, investors to fund us, businesses to partner with us and customers to use us. customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. In a typical venture fund, the partners receive a 2% management fee. This is where the partners would make their money.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Negotiate your overhead for lower rates to help you get through the lean years when you are still building your company.” Picking a walkable location makes getting access to food, coffee, and other activities really convenient for your employees. Stick close to partner organizations. Reference public transportation maps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen. I am one of the original organizers of Frontline Foods and prior to this had spent six years as a general partner at RedPoint Ventures. The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

I also love being able to create a positive and flexible work environment for my employees so that they can have a dream job of flexible hours, bonuses and amazing opportunities. By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. 3) Time to be a Dad.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) I’ll show you the memo in a second. But first some background.) It was still a year away from its IPO.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

A lean business plan would be a perfect fit for your business. Even if you do intend to pitch your business idea to lenders and investors, you can start with a lean plan, and flesh out the rest of the info later on. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Step 6: Choose a location and hire employees.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

"Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

You can go so far in a single direction with too much freedom that maybe that’s not the best for people around you, or employees, or partners. You could actually be scouting new clients in Bogota while doing work with most of your clients in California. If it’s so strictly adornment you might turn people off.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

About 5 years ago, my business partner and I were debating on whether to spend $2,250 for a branded domain from an online domain brokerage and had fallen in love with a techy name for our marketing firm. The name, Saranap dates back over 100 years when a commuter train cut across California, connecting Oakland to Sacramento.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. Angels begot quick wins that produced even more angels. November 28, 2012. Nate Silver: Valley politics are hurting the GOP.

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