Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

software, songs, movies, web site content. _. Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. patent rights are forfeited if you wait greater than 1 year after: - Disclosure in a printed publication: Red flags: White paper, journal/conference article, Web site.

Intellectual Property 213

Intellectual Property IP Software Review Non-disclosure Agreement 213

Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. Center for Venture Research. Venture Capital. $20 So, generally, these three major sources of capital are complementary, not competitive.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web. The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

DiningCircle.com is aimed at handling real-time Web-enabled restaurant reservations. To be successful, a venture needs this laser focus. It is all about the Web. Most of the firms had some critical component that had something to do with using Web protocols or the cloud. I have a platform to sell you.

St. Louis 127

St. Louis Kansas City Technical Review Kansas 127

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App).

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Apple is ultimately the 800-pound gorilla in the audio minutes space as it relates to podcasts, with their woefully outdated native Podcast app being the most dominant podcast app (and having native distribution at scale), despite years of mobile app innovation in podcasts. 3/ Audio As A Feature Of Streaming Services.

Acquisition 134

Acquisition Media Audio Technical Review 134

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

As I mentioned in my post on the LLM Benchmarking , venture capital investment in AI startups was down 43% in Q1 2023. The company is shutting down its consumer product in early June.

Generative AI 165

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2.

Stealth 79

Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. The sports endorsement industry is worth nearly $1 billion and has only recently begun migrating to the Web.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.). Her first startup, Pencil You In, grew from a personal need to schedule hair appointments. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

Detroit 120

Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

This is what Silicon Valley contributed to the Internet and no amount of media spin or PR crisis campaign is going to change what Silicon Valley done to a great technology such as the World Wide Web and the digital economy.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Africa 48

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

I’m one of the judges for an MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC Pitch event on January 31 focused on Digital Commerce companies: Panel Speakers: - Eric Nordlander , Engineering Partner @ Google Ventures. - David Teten , Partner @ ff Venture Capital. - Albert Wenger , Partner @ Union Square Ventures. - Sim Blaustein , Venture Investor.

New York 122

New York Venture Capital Analytics Distribution 122

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today, it can sign one deal with a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to replace all of the above. Copyright is the right to control reproduction and distribution of original works of authorship fixed in tangible forms of expression. After eliminating all of these types of assets, what remains?

Intellectual Property 149

Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market. Today, there is no one dominant player in web servers.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Ignore This Post The same caveat applies as in the first post; If you’re selling via the web, and trade shows seem hopelessly anachronistic, ignore this post. Everyone should have a chance to walk the floor looking for deals, technology, distribution, customers, etc. I’ll talk about web marketing in some later posts.

Silicon Valley 128

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 128

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC (Steve Case). Investors: Google Ventures. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. AppDynamics.

IPO 236

IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Small Business Web Summit. Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack. Tech-savvy minds, this is the conference for you.

Las Vegas 165

Las Vegas North America Silicon Valley New York City 165

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

For a number of years, my partner Jason Mendelson has been teaching an extremely popular course at CU Boulder Law School with Brad Bernthal titled Venture Capital – A 360 Degree Perspective. Our goal will be to put this up on the web as well to provide content (and potentially interaction) to a much wider community.

Venture Capital 133

Venture Capital Leadership Lean Community 133

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. You would end up with dramatically more rides – and that is exactly what is happening. New Use Cases. Use in less urban areas.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

All this leads to a complex web of interactions that are ripe for intelligent analysis. In the late 1990s I was investing in enterprise integration, partner networks and business intelligence – the consumer web was still very much in its infancy.

Venture Capital 88

Venture Capital Mobile Vertical Algorithm 88

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2013

For example, we’ve several times invested based on what we call convertible notes, which is intended as a temporary loan to be converted to equity (ownership) based on a future valuation to be established by transactions with venture capital. But the importance of valuation is also always there. Market Size.

Valuation 136

Valuation Oregon Burn Rate Angel Groups 136

Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

20 years ago, a majority of “Sand Hill” venture capital went into enterprise-focused startups. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads. retailer.

Vertical 60

Vertical Widget Distribution China 60

Pascal's View

MARCH 12, 2010

This is the fifth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. The VC fund may have one managing partner that sets the tone and controls the entire firm, or it may have a collegial distribution of governance among several senior partners. Is one more important than the other?

Government 28

Government Portfolio Technical Review Due Diligence 28

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Given the growth of information online, it is not a surprise that consumers are now looking for more personalized, curated shopping experiences on the Web, and leveraging their social networks and other trusted sources to find products. What’s Next in 2012….

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110