Steve Blank
JUNE 6, 2016
The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2014
What gets lost when a large company looks at the rationale for an acquisition (IP, team, product, users) is that startups are run by founders searching for a business model. And as part of their transition to predictable processes, their founders may or may not still be at the helm. Predicting Success or Failure of an Acquisition.
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Steve Blank
MAY 27, 2010
But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. After some heroics from our CTO in extracting data from SAP, the Visio CFO loved our product, thought we could save them a ton of time and money and wanted it installed ASAP. Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 27, 2015
—– In a recent workshop with a large company focused on the Innovation@50x process, I mentioned that founders and intraprenuers operate more like artists than accountants – on day one they see something no one else does. I wondered what lessons Pixar, an animation studio, could have for founders. Like a startup founder.)
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
I’m now getting more involved in my new job as CTO and I’m too busy to go back and forth negotiating this.” I had acted like an employee, not as a founder and certainly not as the CEO of a startup. I dressed it up as best as I could, making some of the other terms more palatable, but it still wasn’t what he asked for.
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