Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 30, 2023

4- Made it distinctive Photo Credit: Henrik Muller-Hansen From day one, Henrik Muller-Hansen, CEO and Founder, had a global vision and wanted to choose a name that would excite and be easily understood around the world. Our other co-founder and I were looking for a name that would represent our business values and our service proposition.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

has announced this morning a $1 million round led by Genesis Partners, Blumberg Capital and Innovation Endeavors , Eric Schmidt’s investment fund, as well as private investors including Joe Londsdale (founder of Palantir). I sraeli startup Any.Do

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2011

Yosi Glick, Jinni’s CEO and Co-founder said: “Completing the Series B funding round allows us to focus on what we do best: Developing an innovative product that is designed to fundamentally improve the entertainment experience. The round was led by Belgacom and an undisclosed connected-TV manufacturer.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Front End Expertise: XHTML/CSS/JavaScript – Hand code, standards compliant, semantic, cross platform & cross device interfaces, jQuery, MooTools, Ext. Build a team – we have plans to hire at a minimum 2 more engineers once funded with many more to follow and you will be hand selecting your team. link] Fynn Glover.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so it kind of goes hand-in-hand with the knowledge panel it’s just the knowledge panel for semantic knowledge as opposed to physical entities when it comes to local. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David thanks for joining me.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66 Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33 Do you mean the shares go to the founders? What if the founder already included an option pool in the existing shares outstanding? But, this is basically just semantics. VC: How about 12%?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

He’s the co-founder and CEO of the Community Company. He’s also the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, YEC , and the Forbes Councils. He is a co-author of a book we’re gonna talk about today called, “ Superconnector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships That Matter.

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