Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. Brad Feld (Brad is an advisor to K9) from the Foundry Group was instrumental in keeping the flame alive by posting about it on his blog ( The Founders Visa Movement ) in September.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Why “Luck&# is a Terrible Marketing Plan for Your Startup Announcing the “Micropreneur Academy Product Showcase&# → Why A Link from TechCrunch Will Not Make You Rich Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&# Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Some advice on how to do that was covered in this link – Getting Access to a VC. This post covers the day after. I spoke about the topic on Fox Business News yesterday in a great session with TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon and will post it along with my other VC Videos when Fox puts it on their website.

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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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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Just a quick note that I'm going to the Digital Family Summit on Wed around online communities. Hope to run into some people there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. After a full day of talking, debating, thinking, and strategizing, we feel about read to take some good old-fashioned action.

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Eric Friedman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

On October 2nd 2009 I will be participating in an event called The Feast Kitchen where startups will get to present their ideas for social good. These are companies (some non-profit some for profit) trying to make the world a better place. I have two tickets to give away and invite anyone interested in attending the chance to win tickets by simply letting me know in the comments, a tweet(use hashtag #feastongood ) or a blog post why you want to attend.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, September 24, 2009. Survey says VCs invest on Gut Instinct. Nope, the above quote isnt from Richard Dawson on Family Feud, but similar to a headline that caught my attention on the front page of the business section of the San Jose Mercury News this morning. Not that it was surprising, but that it would be news worthy of this placement.

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aweissman.com

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Sep 21, 2009. No Business Developement (or, Hackable Business Development). We have a saying at betaworks - "no business development allowed." Of course, its tongue in check and we dont really mean it (well, maybe we do), but it represents the application of one of our core business scaling principles.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Lower values, higher risks? Or a paradise for investors? | Main. | Starting Startups » September 22, 2009. Does the world need "tough" entrepreneurial coaches? No. I have, twice in the last week, listened to "haven't really been there, but have talked about it" types expound upon how they work with aspiring entrepreneurs (some

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

I have seen countless examples, especially in the technology space, where the entrepreneur is so passionate in his/her belief in the business concept that they expend all available resources to continue to optimize the product/service that underpins the business concept. They operate under the mistaken notion that the product/service is so good that it will be intuitively obvious for potential customers to gravitate to it and buy.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← How to Compete Against Open Source Competition Why A Link from TechCrunch Will Not Make You Rich → Why “Luck&# is a Terrible Marketing Plan for Your Startup Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

I have seen countless examples, especially in the technology space, where the entrepreneur is so passionate in his/her belief in the business concept that they expend all available resources to continue to optimize the product/service that underpins the business concept. They operate under the mistaken notion that the product/service is so good that it will be intuitively obvious for potential customers to gravitate to it and buy.

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