Cofounder Equity Lean Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
MARCH 12, 2014
While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” Knowing they had 3 weeks before presenting to the company co-founders, the kids felt intensity like no traditional classroom could generate.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 30, 2022
Sometime in your future, an investor will offer you money in return for equity. While investors can seem like a solution to countless problems you encounter as a founder, don’t be too hasty to start eating from their hands. One in particular from a famous VC in Silicon Valley. Will you be ready? You might even ask for it.
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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.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 19, 2019
Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October. You’ve been in Silicon Valley since the early days. It was a lot less appealing to me to be a growth equity investor, but that's not why I retired.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. While private equity has a history in the U.S. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Time will tell.
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