Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A manufacturer with multiple locations will need accounting software with robust inventory management capabilities, while an online seller will need something that easily interfaces with an e-commerce platform like Shopify. Inventory management. Shipping and customer order management. Project management. Purchase orders.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. Alex explained that in his community building a successful venture that generated nice cash flows – not IPO’s – were the big win.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

My first IPO at Convergent. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. We must have made them play the demo twenty times. There were a few times in my career I knew at that moment I was watching something profound – (Holding the glass masks of the Z80 microprocessor. First silicon of the MIPS RISC processor.)

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

so I feel I have an unbiased appreciation for BOTH Californias. Recruiting will be different – You can build a great management team in LA. If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. TechCoast Angels backed GreenDot should be a major IPO this year.

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David Teten

MARCH 22, 2011

The Committee received and continues to receive valuable feedback from the HBS Angels of Northern California via conference calls. Monday, 04/4/11 at 6:00pm: Innovation in Private Company Liquidity: Online M&A, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO. RSVP: [link].

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

People tend to underestimate how much record keeping is involved with managing employees and consultants, and this just adds an unacceptable extra burden. Matt is a lawyer representing technology companies through all phases of their lifecycle, from pre-incorporation, seed & VC financings, exit transactions and IPOs (read more).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. The irony is that few startups fit these criteria.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I looked at the diagram in that ski cabin I realized there was a fundamental question I couldn’t answer: if all startups follow that model, why is it that some companies are opening bottles of champagne at their IPO and others who almost followed the same rules are selling off their furniture? What was the difference here?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. Texas provides the red carpet for businesses to succeed while California puts up walls of red tape! What’s bringing them here?

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

Last week , data management and dashboard start up Domo announced it had raised an additional $200 million in growth capital, bringing its total haul over the past four years to a truly remarkable $450 million. in general and California in particular have in unique abundance.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I particularly was struck by the description of how Jeff manages the meetings of Amazon’s senior executive team: “…the Amazon CEO's fondness for the written word drives one of his primary, and peculiar, tools for managing his company: Meetings of his "S-team" of senior executives begin with participants quietly absorbing the written word.

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Gust

JULY 18, 2012

This tension explains why shareholder advocacy groups, large investment funds, and (to a varying extent) the SEC put so much energy behind initiatives related to executive compensation , Board independence, shareholder proposals (the corporate equivalent of direct democracy — e.g., propositions on the ballot in California), and so forth.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. At Google's IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! million shares of Google stock. Talk about leverage.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Companies like Warehouse Now have developed digital platforms leveraging AI to help warehousing and supply chain businesses streamline their capital-expenditure (capex) intensive, highly underutilized real estate warehouse assets to operational expenditure (opex) based, just-in-time, highly efficient supply chain management assets.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It was still a year away from its IPO. General managers of divisons are compensated on division P&L not long term innovation. You cannot say it is the people (owners, manager or workers). Steven Blank: Managers need to be more entrepreneurial. But first some background.) What is a company anyway?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2- A business I built IPO’ed. A business that I built just IPO’ed (yesterday actually and I am still smiling). I started the company when I was 25 years old and had just moved from California to NYC. All in all, 2020 was a great year at Hill Law Firm. Thanks to Justin A. Hill, Hill Law Firm ! #2-

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. At Google’s IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! million shares of Google stock. Talk about leverage.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbaras Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. Cash Flow Management (4). Thanks for visiting! John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 10, 2010

Unfortunately, both moved off to California and are active investors and mentors for young start-ups out there. era who were very successful in their day - Open Market (IPO 1996, peak market capitalization of $2.5 era who were very successful in their day - Open Market (IPO 1996, peak market capitalization of $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Most people want to know management is accountable.". Why Register? Todays Paper.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

From California Historical Landmarks for Santa Clara note that Federal Telegraph predates HP by more than a quarter of a century and all of the early WWII era technology entrepreneurs had a common interest in radio. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. 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. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”). If the brand is properly managed, this naming convention can foster a halo effect over all the company’s products. Cash Flow Management (5). from the Wharton School.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The problem most startups have — aside from reaching the critical mass necessary to support an initial public offering (IPO) — is deciding exactly when the conditions are exactly right to go public. Here are three IPO lessons and what they hold for today’s startups. Uber — May 9th, 2019.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. 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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

ARD’s most famous investment was the $70,000 they put into Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 for 77% of the company that was worth hundreds of millions by its 1968 IPO. Several wealthy families in the U.S. set up companies to do just that – find and formalize investments in new and emerging industries.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The middle managers we talked to at catalog companies saw the Web not as an opportunity, but assomething that meant more work for them. They didnt talkWall Streets language when they did their IPO, and Wall Streetdidnt buy. We did get a few of the more adventurous catalog companies. Im happy to see Google is bucking that trend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. 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.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. That’s a really big deal, because that category of software, line managers and businesses have never actually used that software themselves. Actually — we have another one actually that is — well, it sounds esoteric, but it actually is very relevant.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management. Project Management tools. Part 4- Closing.

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