Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Decades later, I realized that the broadband network company where I worked, installing high-speed process control networks in automobile assembly plants and steel mills (before Ethernet existed), was one of the few pioneering startups in Ann Arbor.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. Financing, that is.I ► January. (1).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Decades later, I realized that the broadband network company where I worked, installing high-speed process control networks in automobile assembly plants and steel mills (before Ethernet existed), was one of the few pioneering startups in Ann Arbor.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? For instance, she showed Coca Cola as one of the target brands advertising on the GoodyTag network.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

.” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. I must admit that I do also have some exceptions to this rule – LucidChart is based in Provo, UT, and Occipital is presently in Boulder, CO. I suspect this is also the case for most VCs.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

.” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. I must admit that I do also have some exceptions to this rule – LucidChart is based in Provo, UT, and Occipital is presently in Boulder, CO. I suspect this is also the case for most VCs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. As you'll hear, BA became an entrepreneur without expecting to have to address such questions, but that's not how it's turned out.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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