Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. 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.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

In 2010, Kranthi was hired as a full-time software engineer by International Technological University (ITU), the Silicon Valley industry-oriented school where he had earned his second MS degree. The post International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Kranthi Lammatha.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

We had written code for 8 months in our home town of Missoula, Montana before it occurred to us we might need to raise money to launch our startup. FitzGerald is the co-founder and CEO of Submittable , a cloud-based submission platform used by thousands of publishers for accepting and curating digital content. in revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Startup funding is largely driven by The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules. Let’s face it, the rules for getting a startup funded at the seed stage aren’t very clear. Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. This is where I brought in the thinking of how we build businesses here in Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If you haven’t raised any money or if you raised a small round from angels or friends & family I would suggest you avoid setting up a formal board unless the people who would join your board are deeply experienced at sitting on startup boards. If you’re a super experienced Silicon Valley CEO with a billion-dollar exit?—?probably.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 29, 2014

Business Insider recently crunched the numbers behind 26 of the top venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and learned that the percentage of female-founded startups in their portfolios ranged from a high of 19% to a low of just 4%. A commonly cited statistic is that only 7 percent of U.S. Related articles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. A partnership was announced a while back with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost. Silicon Valley, Boston). Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. Innovation areas the corporation is interested in.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. or the countless other successful startup firms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. A partnership was announced with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

s roundtable, I started with a presentation on blue sky opportunities in cloud computing based on our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing (TLCC) research. I took the audience through five cloud-based business ideas, discussed why they are relevant and pointed them to the sources I derived those ideas from.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. How to make corporate innovation work and drive success in startups were the topics of discussion with the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. He was the CEO of two startups.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. Guiding, drilling and grilling these teams are Jeremy Weinstein , former deputy to the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. As an advisor to many startups, I’m convinced it’s an expensive and painful approach, but I do see it used all too often. entrepreneur failure MJ Gottlieb startup' But things do go wrong, and you will be left holding the bag.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

Only one in ten startups succeed. Environment: When you think of an optimized environment for a startup, Silicon Valley comes to mind. Among other things, Silicon Valley delivers a trifecta of governmental and regulatory support, a rich field of academia and an engaged private sector.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. As an advisor to many startups, I’m convinced it’s an expensive and painful approach, but I do see it used all too often. But things do go wrong, and you will be left holding the bag. You may be dead wrong. Over-promise and under-deliver.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Silicon Valley Frontlines. In-the-Trenches Consulting to Startup and Emerging-Growth Companies. Working for equity only is, realistically, the way most startups have to get going. The company description makes it crystal clear that this is for the VERY SAME STARTUP looking to pay nothing to the sucker CFO.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre [Silicon Valley] –> Itself an outgrowth of the venture investing arm of the original Bank of America (based in SF), Merrill Pickard backed many startups that ultimately went public. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. Author howerl.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We made 3 new investments: Figure 1 , a photo-sharing network for medical professionals; Upverter , a cloud-based hardware engineering platform; and one unannounced investment. This not only doubled our size, but also bolstered our physical presence in Silicon Valley. 2013 was busy for Version One. Today and tomorrow.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Next week, we will delve deep into cloud computing businesses. To prepare, please study the Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing trends and opportunities series. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Tags: StartUp 101. Very encouraging! Photo by takatuka.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir. While the cloud wars, AI, automation, and digital transformation dominated the enterprise headlines in 2018, we have to remember that we are still early in the cycle.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

The SXSW Startup Crawl! Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. Wednesday, March 13 Every day 10:00am-5:00pm.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

Cloud servers mean solutions can be deployed from anywhere on earth, while monthly payments ensure continual capital. Some industry insiders expect that there will be 10,000 SaaS startups from India in the coming decade, which means thousands upon thousands of new roles.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

This (somewhat liberally translated) Chinese proverb is something you hear often in Silicon Valley these days. by Pascal Finette from Singularity University. May you live in interesting times.” ~ Chinese Proverb. Some say it is a curse. Regardless, nobody denies its truth when it comes to the change technology brings to our world.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. Move over Bangalore, there’s a new Indian metropolis evolving with its finger on the pulse of cloud, mobile and digital technologies. Pune, India?.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

This week, we hear from Alex Blumberg from Gimlet Media and the Startup Podcast in our new Bcast Bytes segment. Click here to subscribe to the Startup Podcast on iTunes. Cloud-based Subscription Services (with Levi King) – (21:30). Alex Blumberg at Internet Week in New York. Photo Credit: Insider Images/Andrew Kelly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Building a new startup hub Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. It was a great experience to see a relatively new startup hub in action - and thriving. Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. We first met Jamie when had had a startup called Simulscribe, which transcribed voicemail so you could read your messages rather than listen to them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2015

It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. As an advisor to many startups, I’m convinced it’s an expensive and painful approach, but I do see it used all too often. But things do go wrong, and you will be left holding the bag. You may be dead wrong. Over-promise and under-deliver.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. The entire startup ecosystem is interested in the 1% of entrepreneurs who are fundable, have already defined strong market opportunities, and are already well on their way. Tags: StartUp 101. Please try to understand why.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

ambassador to the United Nations and a Stanford professor of political science; Zvika Krieger , the State Department’s representative to Silicon Valley and senior advisor for technology and innovation; retired U.S. Guiding, drilling and grilling these teams are Jeremy Weinstein , former deputy to the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. And I’ve also been convinced that it can be quite useful to have another startup company CEO on your board. As You Start to Mature. how & when to raise capital.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

This year’s hottest startups were all about boosting our productivity and well-being. It promises to revolutionize the way developers and operation teams work, aiming to make application development for the cloud less of a nightmare. Shyp’s an example of a startup that has thrived thanks to the existence of open Web services.

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