Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. What’s Missing Is Early Stage Capital. Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2010

The fallacy is believing that a founders value is evenly distributed over four years. They also know that most founding CEO’s don’t scale past the early stage. Where’s My Liquidity Event. More often than not the founding CEO leaves the company. We now have three decades of experience that says otherwise.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

You can be an Independent studio or do “work for hire&# (either a revenue share or buy-out model) - If you’re an independent studio you have a set of choices for distribution channel and marketing models. - We understood none of this. More detail in future posts. But I wonder if the success is due to or in spite of VCs.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. These are also questions that will concern late-stage investors who provide the companies the opportunities to scale and, eventually, go public. Partner with Foreign VCs.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Company) a good place to find good technical co-founders? Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? Now we turn it around. For your employees?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue. Never in the history of venture capital have early stage startups had access to so much capital. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. Competition also has access to capital.

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