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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 What’s Missing Is Early Stage Capital.

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Steel In Their Eyes – Why VC’s Should Be Startup CEO’s

Steve Blank

Today, you can start a web/mobile/cloud startup for $500,000 and have money left over. Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Early-stage Venture Capital firms grow their partnerships in different ways, some hire: partners from other firms.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Agora isan affordable “one-stop shop” for cloud computing needs. Intended for cloud infrastructure service providers, enterprises with spare capacity in their private clouds, startups, companies doing image and video processing, and others. Here is a brief summary of each.

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Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Distribution Channels

Steve Blank

Cloud- based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are quickly becoming another distribution platform. Therapeutics Channel = what you’re selling in the early stage is data and Intellectual Property to the pharmaceutical and biotech companies. other DHealth channels such as Wellness Platforms, and cloud-based EMR’s are also emerging.

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What Startups Need to Know About Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

To illustrate this they drew these adjacent markets as a cloud surrounding their company. Most early stage startups don’t have the regulatory domain expertise in-house. Unlike the traditional X/Y graph you can draw as many adjacent market segments as you’d like.). Go get outside advice at each step.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud.

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The 7 Deadly Healthcare Startup Sins

Steve Blank

It is in need of innovation on many fronts and is also trying to embrace the amazing amount of innovation happening with early-stage companies. Many startups make the key assumption that hospitals will trust their data to a startup’s “cloud” for the long term. a security review (especially if they are in “the cloud”).

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