Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Because Lean Startup methods, Crowdfunding, Amazon Web Services and the Internet that connects us all, is bringing the cost of failure to zero. .

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Consider Tesla, Warby Parker and Peloton, all of which use physical locations as storerooms to supplement their online sales channels. Most everyone is aware of the plague of false information spreading across social media and the rest of the Web. Fake News Defense.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

He introduced himself and we kept in touch through all the various social media channels—until I heard he was leaving Gilt. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. I knew Jared from his time at Tumblr.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. Or blame my MarCom department who approved it. Worry about the sales results. What did we learn?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2011

Need to check on how much traffic the company Web site is getting? Though you shouldn’t let Fear of Failure (FOF) dictate your every move, you can and should channel it to help you stay one step ahead of potential problems, which, if not avoided, could become painful — or worse. by Michael Feuer, author of “ The Benevolent Dictator “.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 21, 2017

can't be found from a simple web search, but through that search we can certainly connect with the people and firms who can go out and get it for us (write me if you would like to learn more about how to do this!). For sure, the most juicy and valuable competitive intell.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. This is my core assumption on Web 3.0. Mava Consulting. And that is what I advised J.J.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. and if a web-based product, a minimum feature set,) all delivered in 10 weeks. Teams that select a web-based product will have to build the site for the class.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Without those open and yet expert-filled channels, it might have taken me many years more to correct my naivety and fill out my understanding of core topics.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

For our tech project (and likely others in our field) the value is in accurately predicting platforms and information channels in the next 6months-1 year. This is more challengine than it appears, and method of insulation is supporting varied input channels. It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Ignore This Post The same caveat applies as in the first post; If you’re selling via the web, and trade shows seem hopelessly anachronistic, ignore this post. Why are you saying that “If you’re selling via the web and trade shows are something your grandfather told you about, ignore this post.&#. this may be a useful read.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. Thats real money."

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Stefan Tirtey, Partner at Doughty Hanson Ventures , created this document with Berlin early stage investors. If you raise money for the first time, you better understand the basics of venture capital. Brad Feld wrote a great book about Venture Capital. Still, raising money for the first time is difficult.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. There are too many products clamoring for attention.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

I think the one frustration, which Andrew Warner from Mixergy noted when I talked to him, was that there’s maybe two or three chapters that touch on SEO and web marketing kinds of things, but this is not an SEO-centric book. If you raise venture capital versus getting a bank loan, you are no less or more of an entrepreneur.

Silicon Valley 33

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC (Steve Case). Investors: Google Ventures. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. AppDynamics.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2013

For example, we’ve several times invested based on what we call convertible notes, which is intended as a temporary loan to be converted to equity (ownership) based on a future valuation to be established by transactions with venture capital. But the importance of valuation is also always there. Market Size.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Bloch was previously a partner in Jerusalem Venture Partners and an active member of the board in the Israeli startup Wix. In addition, MySupermarket developed a technology which shows the nutritional values of food products, to help the user decide between competing brands. "You

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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Up and Running

MAY 24, 2013

Provide Multiple Channels for Customer Inquiries. ” Provide as many channels as possible for your fans to provide feedback, phone numbers, email addresses, social media, surveys, etc. . - Aaron Schwartz , Modify Watches. . - Thursday Bram , Hyper Modern Consulting. Identify the Second Bounce of the Ball. Scan the Market.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the ninth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. The biggest problem the VC industry has today is that, absent access to public market capital, there are too few VC-backed companies that are self sustaining cashflow generators. Yes I do. Share and Enjoy:

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Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 26, 2015

slack channel, there’ve been a number of stories shared and rationales put forward around why traditional venture capital isn’t a fit for the vast majority of founders. . The piece centers around how bootstrapped deep web marketplaces can, and will, put pressure on their VC funded competitors.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 23, 2010

The position will: “help develop forward-thinking policies on social media, digital communications, web 2.0 The position will: “help develop forward-thinking policies on social media, digital communications, web 2.0 Yeah, so, that’s kind of the point of all this Web 2.0 Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The quantitative combination of an initial approach that is high-volume, but later selectively filtered results in a higher percentage outcome of winners, and larger dollar-weighted bets on companies that are successful. startupcto

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For Web and SaaS businesses with smaller transactions at higher volumes, this kind of modeling and tracking is much easier, as web-based lead generation and marketing have easy to implement measurements, and the greater the volume of transactions, the more clearly patterns emerge. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue.

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Babbling VC

APRIL 10, 2011

Yet, in our world of venture capital, tech start-ups, Silicon Valley and the internet, we often forget that there is money to be made in so many ways. Gadgets are just channels to get your idea into someone's hands. So much of this never overlaps with technology and venture capital. Technology is just a tool.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2010

I’m certainly responsive there, but you’re also bound to run into a number of other people with different views and opinions, each of whom also have links to where they are elsewhere in the social web. Content acts as an organizing structure to attract the right people and channel them into relevant conversations.

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