Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2018

I’ve been in San Diego with Amy for a while but we are returning to Boulder in a week. San Diego has been great, but I miss my dogs, my friends, and the Colorado vibe. Next up is a fun article by my co-author of Startup Communities Way (my new Startup Communities book – coming up mid-year 2019) Ian Hathaway.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2020

by Chris Clifford , Founder & CEO of HED Skincare. Founder & CEO of HED Skincare Chris Clifford was born and raised in San Diego, CA and studied at Loyola Marymount University with a major in Entrepreneurship and International Business. Like many entrepreneurs, I began starting businesses young.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. What is your top goal for your startup for 2020?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

My goal for 2020 as a founder is to celebrate the small moments more. As a startup team, my employees work so hard every day and have to wear many hats. In 2019, we focused on expanding our product line at BestSelf Co. As a founder, our community will be my biggest focus in the new year. 5- Celebrate the small moments.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

has announced that it is partnering search giant Google to support the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States and around the world. Both companies will jointly be investing in activities that foster innovation and supporting startups, beginning with Women 2.0 ‘s signature networking event Founder Friday.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. You have a runway that would make San Diego Airport’s look long. Have the breakthrough technology.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Over 200 eager startups applied for the journey months out from the competition. The big winner of the evening, Ovopal — the first wearable technology to track fertility and transmit readings to your mobile app. We even met up with Dustin Bradley, a client and founder of FlipManager.com. ” And it did.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. He vowed to make sure that his colleagues never behaved like that in a startup meeting again. My blog was wiped out.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2011

San Diego-based SwoopThat.com is a site targeting college students that lists courses and the required textbooks for those courses in hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States. The time factor is what makes this technology unique,” says Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat ’s co-founder and CEO. “As

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

This summer, I landed endorsements by Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup, master marketer Seth Godin, the founders of BNI and GreenBiz.com, and several others for my 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, forthcoming in March from Morgan James (and already available for preorder). #6 – Wonderful & Productive Summer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. Technology transfer office. Venture capital.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology. Hacking for Diplomacy student.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. 3D technology in theaters and at home. What it was like to do a startup.

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