Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

If you follow the Twittersphere you may have noticed several people weighing in on this recent piece by Mike Isaac of the NY Times, asking “ How Many Angels is Too Many? ” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did.

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View from Seed

JULY 7, 2015

To our listeners: THANK YOU! We recently learned that Traction was featured on the iTunes New and Noteworthy list, and it’s all thanks to your ratings, listenership, support, and feedback. For those new to the show: Traction shares the incredible stories of the creative and unusual things entrepreneurs do to make initial progress. You can listen on iTunes or SoundCloud.

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Brandanew

JULY 7, 2015

Today, there are zillions of startups across the digital space struggling to create a significant online presence. Sure, company websites are bound to give you a digital footprint but where is the audience to show off your management skills with? Even though businesses across the world are accepting brand awareness generation as a part of their marketing strategies, there are a still a lot many startups that shy away from doing so or make a ‘just for the heck of it’ attempt at it.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2015

It goes without saying that technology has changed the world, but what’s really unprecedented is the digital lifestyle that people have developed especially with their devices. From the first, second and third screens that people use – whether at home, at work or on-the-go – the lines between the physical and digital worlds have really blurred.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2015

I’m running another competition for a startup to live for a year for free in my Kansas City FiberHouse. When I bought my house in Kansas City in 2013 , I announced my intentions clearly. “I’m not going to be living in it. Instead, I’m going to let entrepreneurs live / work in it. Rent free. As part of helping create the Kansas City startup community.

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SiliconHills

JULY 7, 2015

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Robert Nathan Allen started eating bugs in Austin about four years ago and now he runs a cricket farm to harvest and sell edible insects. Eating bugs makes sense nutritionally, the insects are protein and iron rich, Allen said. Bugs also use less land, water and produce […] The post The Edible Bug Business in Austin is Growing appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 7, 2015

Attracting key startup talent is one thing. Keeping it is another. Here's a look at ten reasons employees leave and how to keep them instead.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 7, 2015

The meaning of the term ‘sharing economy’ has always been a bit vague for me. On the one hand it includes genuine sharing ideas like Airbnb whilst on the other it includes labour markets like TaskRabbit and Homejoy, and then more recently Venturebeat lumped in companies like Wework and Transferwise (although they called it the ‘collaborative economy’).

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YFS Magazine

JULY 7, 2015

The alternative office market is evolving by overhauling existing centers to better reflect the tastes and working habits of today's renters.

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SiliconHills

JULY 7, 2015

In 1885, Karl Benz invented the automobile and later that year in a test drive he promptly crashed it into a wall, Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving car project, said in a TED Talk. Driver errors create the majority of accidents on today’s road. Google’s solution is fully self driving cars. And Tuesday, Google […] The post Google’s Self Driving Cars Hit the Streets of Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 7, 2015

Give your Kickstarter campaign the best possible chance for success with these six video tips.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2015

13 Point Checklist for the Perfect Website Redesign written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. I rarely encounter a business that simply doesn’t yet have a website. Regardless of the bizarre reports that still contend 50% of all small business owners don’t have a website. ( See Inc ). Now, what I do encounter most of the time is a small business that needs a total site makeover or redesign.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 7, 2015

This guest post was contributed by BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital. Raising money for your startup can be a 40 hour per week job—one you have to do in addition to the work-a-day job of managing and growing your company. Raising money is difficult for even the most promising companies out there, so it pays, literally, to avoid common fundraising pitfalls.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2015

Freelancing in the Cloud written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Kate Kendall via Twitter. Marketing Podcast with Kate Kendall. Running a thriving business, with or without employees has become so much easier today. You have at your fingertips, through the use of marketplaces and technology, access to the greatest talent available in the world.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 7, 2015

My partners and I have noticed an interesting trend over the past few years: an increase in the number of entrepreneurs who prefer to pitch us without the use of a presentation deck. On one hand, this is totally understandable. Many believe that PowerPoint decks are emblematic of the type of bureaucracy disparaged in Dilbert cartoons. Others want to appear “casual” and “conversational” and view the presentation as overly formal.

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Professor VC

JULY 7, 2015

"You analyze me, pretend to despise me, You laugh when I stumble and fall. There may come a day I will dance on your grave" — Hell in a Bucket, Grateful Dead I attended one of the Grateful Dead "Fare Thee Well" shows in Santa Clara last weekend. I have always admired the Dead's biz model (sorry Friendster/MySpace/Facebook, The Dead was the First Social Network) and music, although I never became a full fledged Deadhead.

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