Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. 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). Clay Hebert.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company - [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money | Built In Chicago - [link]. 12 Must Watch TED Talks for Entrepreneurs – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7. Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. The Paradoxical Traits of an Entrepreneur | by Jody Porowski – crowdspring.co/1piN6X6. WordStream – crowdspring.co/1tOs1vg.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

We are so proud to be a part of the entrepreneurial and technology community in Chicago where we are based. 7 Habits of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs | – crowdspring.co/1q9cIqW. 10 Ways to Make Your Relationship With Your Co-Founder A Success – crowdspring.co/1sSi21Y. By @jopas pic.twitter.com/35FAQfMeow.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. The class provides Life Science/Health Care entrepreneurs with real world, hands-on learning on how to rapidly : define clinical utility before spending millions of dollars. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Capital raised is the favorite yardstick in the startup world. Some entrepreneurs are obsessed with venture capital. Andy Crestodina is the Co-Founder of Orbit Media Studios , a web development company in Chicago. Some profitable companies are deep in debt. Social Proof vs. Ego Metrics.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. Omaha is rising in prominence among entrepreneurs and investors, making a name for itself in a more broad and diverse range of industries than in previous years. Here’s a word association game: what do you think of when you hear “Omaha, Nebraska”?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. You need a wedge.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. And so it goes again.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Philly quietly chugs away drawing entrepreneurs and venture capital (VC) dollars. In the past, large numbers of Philly’s top students flocked to California, New York, and Chicago after graduation. Philly also served as the nation’s first capital under the Articles of Confederation.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

To succeed as a small business owner and an entrepreneur, you need passion. BlueVine, which is based in Redwood City, California, offers online working capital financing to small- and medium-sized businesses in many industries. His experience as an entrepreneur partly inspired my desire to start my own business in 2013.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Joe Lonsdale.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. ff Venture Capital) for investment consideration. the America that is not just white men.).

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Fairly often I hear entrepreneurs pitch that their startup doesn’t have a headquarters – everyone works remotely and it works. Rather, VCs want to know that an entrepreneur is thinking big enough about their idea that the organization which they’re creating will grow to a point where a central location is a requirement.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. But, of course, they need funding—and wouldn’t you know it, one of the founders is a world class poker player. The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. They’re not mass produced.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions. While this data might be alarming for early-stage founders, but it should certainly not dissuade entrepreneurs from launching a venture and seeking funds in the city. Last year, nearly $1.2

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Fairly often I hear entrepreneurs pitch that their startup doesn’t have a headquarters – everyone works remotely and it works. Rather, VCs want to know that an entrepreneur is thinking big enough about their idea that the organization which they’re creating will grow to a point where a central location is a requirement.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. I’m reminded of this feeling.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. Today, we are lucky to welcome Dan Kimerling of Deciens Capital. Dan has a B.A. It’s awesome to have you.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Perhaps most famously, Guy Kawasaki quipped that the value of an MBA to an entrepreneur is “probably about a negative $250,000.”. Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. Key Insights. as ranked by U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. My close friend Brian Moran (co-founder of BuildOnline) was an architect and is now a real estate developer and adviser. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. In the early days of the current internet age, the center of Dallas venture capital was the Galleria area.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999). Michael Moe, co-founder of the investment-advisory firm GSV Asset Management, said the first ed-tech wave had been based mostly on euphoria that anything digital would work.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. The J.M.K.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

We talked about how business school historically hasn’t positioned entrepreneurs well for success. I wrote about that before in a post about “ whether MBAs are necessary for entrepreneurs. His class reading lists could be a primer for any entrepreneur, not just MBAs. Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. You have no choice.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Wyzant is a leading Chicago-based marketplace that connects tutors with students around the country. Instawork was cofounded by Sumir Meghani in San Franciso and was a member of the 2015 Y-Combinator class. If you are a founder who is excited about starting a new marketplace, there are two caveats that are important to remember.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents. Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. As a single entrepreneur I had a philosophy of, “ I live to work ” – nothing was more exciting or important than my job. It takes two.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

Why do so many venture capitalists ignore the single best predictor of the future: demographics? One of my particular interests is looking for women & minority entrepreneurs in which to invest. I’m looking for non-traditional entrepreneurs because I’m a fiduciary. Conventional Founder Background. Non-Majority Markets.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Venture capital Rounds. Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Chicago-based Future Simple raised $1.1 million in its third financing round led by Pitango Venture Capital. Israeli venture capital news.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If you aren’t familiar with the term, bootstrapping, also known as “self-funding,” refers to the various methods entrepreneurs can use to fund their startups beyond funding sources like small business loans. How have other entrepreneurs bootstrapped their way to success? Let’s begin.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. America is full of entrepreneurs, inventor and dreamers. I don’t have a background as an entrepreneur. How the U.S. We need to continue that.

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