BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

Like Douglas McGray , the CEO and EIC of California Sunday Magazine , a newly launched multiplatform magazine. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Fixing the Missing Pieces of Infrastructure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

Happy New Year! Four months ago, T he Lean Startup debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. On Monday, I’m taking The Lean Startup across the pond to the UK to launch the first international edition. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

A subsegment of those instructors – those trying to teach Lean LaunchPad, whether in I-Corps, or Hacking for Defense – have an additional burden of figuring out how to teach a class that depends on students getting out of the building and talking to 10 to 15 customers a week. Here’s what we learned. And so it began.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2022

Daniel is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward , published in February. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I was president first of Citibank New York, then Citibank Federal Savings Bank, which is all the U.S. A power company wants to know whether they should be burning natural gas or taking power off of the solar grid because it's sunny in Southern California. The change agents were getting eaten by the business-as-usual.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors written 40 years ago is still a business classic.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But most start-ups in Silicon Beach are young and lean and cant afford to provide Silicon Valley-like perks as trumpeted by Google, such as free food, pool tables and massages. "If 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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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Growing up in New York, the library was the only calm and stable place in my life, a refuge from home. We could go off base and do anything a group of 19-year olds wanted to, like skydiving, but that’s another story. Library Hour s I loved libraries since I was a kid. I read my way through our small neighborhood library.

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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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer - Ben's Blog , November 15, 2010 Meet the new boss. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. To that point, I’d been talking about Lean Startup concepts only on a seldom-read blog and with people in my immediate network.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. Starting a Business cat cafe lean planning' However, the interest in cat cafes stateside is certainly growing. Let us know in the comments below, or on Twitter!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. By this point, we had moved out to Northern California. By this point, we moved to California out here. So, there's a teacher in Hesperia, California.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. The new administration has helped some of their ranks to cross over into the Federal community too. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Frank Serpico was the first police officer in the history of the New York police department to step forward to report and subsequently testify openly about widespread, systemic corruption payoffs amounting to millions of dollars.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 13, 2019

He eventually met my American mother Carol Teten , and they settled in Marin County, California, where I grew up. We could walk through the pathways in the garden, and lean over to pluck fresh tomatoes. He lived through the Holocaust in Paris, which killed approximately 25% of French Jews. My parents were married for 52 years. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

It ended with a large layoff and a transfer of jobs from NY to California and Bangalore. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. If they can’t figure it out in Minneapolis, I’m not quite sure how they’re ever going to figure it out in New York. Yet, he seems out of his depth when it comes to issues of gender and race and that just cannot fly in New York City.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Gregory Heilers has helped on two startup farms: his father’s 200-acre grass-fed beef and goat farm, which also includes an orchard, a berry patch, and a vegetable garden, with areas set aside for future logging; and on a seven-acre organically grown market garden in upstate New York. He says, ask yourself, “Is it for profit?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

From a mission and purpose standpoint, we have always been about access and quality, so that was a natural place for our team to lean in harder to the support that we knew would be needed across our communities. That was our incredible team of operators and partnership team members in the New York and New Jersey region.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Why is it that when I just visited news.yahoo.com, the ad says "New Rule in Texas!", ", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? They also make it clear they only serve California, rather than telling you after you click the Submit button! Why is it that when I visit www.3m.com

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

I love Google. I think its one of the smartest companies out there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

So we did the opposite and leaned into it adopting the “Why Buy Me” strategy of seeking people out who either understood the power of LA or were persuadable. And we have national deals in New York, DC and Chicago. I even adopted a line early on in our discussions to qualify for this. “Listen. ” Boom.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… New York. 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. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

If you’d like to learn more about starting a business in a given city on this list and check out what each city has to offer for new startups, I’ve also included plenty of resources to help you get started. Silicon Valley, California, USA. New York City, New York, USA. Up New York City.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Terman arranged for a research assistantship to bring his former student, David Packard, back from a job at General Electric in New York to collaborate with William Hewlett, another of Terman’s graduate students. Terman was also on the board of HP. Terman sat on the HP board from 1957-1973. More on this in the next post.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

All that said, I have started and moderate the Texas Startups group , as the uniqueness of the Texan economy, the distinction of our collective schools, the opportunity presented by the industries herein, and substantial migration of people from the coasts in to Texas, are all driving our new economy; an economy of innovation driven by Texas.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

You could actually be scouting new clients in Bogota while doing work with most of your clients in California. We’ve talked a little bit about planning, and lean management, and even some of the Kanban principles that we talked about a few episodes ago. You literally could be anywhere. Jonathan: Kanban. Jonathan: Yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

And oddly it took an investor in New York to highlight to me Cornerstone OnDemand – one of the most successful software company in my home town of Los Angeles! 23:00 Discussion of California’s social media privacy laws. billion market cap so he has a history of weighing in early and being right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. So the wildfires hit in Northern California, they showed up here to feed firefighters and displaced families.

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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. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. California alone lost a million jobs. Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

And noted New York angel Chris Dixon recently made the leap to the venture world. ” [Source: New York Times ]. - The report includes this fun tidbit about Amazon charging sales tax: “We in California have already become accustomed to paying sales tax on Amazon. November 28, 2012. November 28, 2012.

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