YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2013

The New York Times profiles two successful tech start-ups— GoodData , which at its start raised more than $50 million in venture capital funding, and RJ Metrics, which held out with self-financing for as long as possible—that went after the same market at the same time, and contrasts their approaches to finance.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief Operating Officer of a company – but in this case the company has 3 million employees (~1.4 Innovation incorporates lean methodologies (customer discovery, problem understanding, MVPs, Pivots), coupled with speed and urgency, and a culture where failure equals rapid learning.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The responsibility for validating the founders original hypotheses is delegated to employees – the sales and marketing team.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Like a lot of founders, she has no interest in a traditional job: I don’t have the personality to be an employee. Clay : Yeah.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

After Stanford, Ann joined Mike Maples’ Venture Capital firm Floodgate as a partner. As the Stanford entrepreneurship program for the engineering school sits in the Management Science and Engineering Department , most of our TA’s are students in the MS&E PhD program.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Fifteen months later eight of Shockley’s employees (three physicists, an electrical engineer, an industrial engineer, a mechanical engineer, a metallurgist and a physical chemist) founded Fairchild Semiconductor. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. A wave of innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

On top of this, there are abundant resources available to business owners—be it venture capital funding opportunities or recruiting channels via one of the local universities. Cities with engaging, information-packed sites lean more toward being small business-friendly than those with poorly built, spammy-looking websites.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

This Build phase typically begin with around 40 employees and will last to at least 175 and in some cases up to 700 employees. Venture-backed startups will often have a Series C or D or later rounds during this phase. Filed under: Family/Career/Culture , Lean LaunchPad , Venture Capital. Lessons Learned.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Employee Benefits. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Financing A Small Business. Business Taxes. Selling A Business.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. This means they could fund other non-military academic programs from this overhead.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs. But starting in the last quarter of that century and accelerating in this one, a new form of financing – risk capital (angel and venture capital) — emerged.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

People tend to underestimate how much record keeping is involved with managing employees and consultants, and this just adds an unacceptable extra burden. Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works. Running Lean aims to help startups avoid the waste of time, money, and effort of creating the wrong product. Based on lessons from the TechStars mentorship startup program, this book offers practical advice for getting your startup off the ground.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Now we needed to put the tactical programs in place to make this repositioning strategy happen. I’m curious, how many employees did SuperMac have at that time and what was your approach to educating the company?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. Thanks for connecting the historical dots!

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. My post looks at this from the consultant/employee point of view. This prevents automated programs from posting comments. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. venture capital. Good point. outsourcing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. I've been in venture now twice. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. How do you develop power within a venture capital firm?

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. link] Stan James.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explore the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. What’s more, as the Lean Startup revolution has gone mainstream, Dave said, it has started to change the trajectory of our economy.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 16, 2016

I have spent the last few months helping to create and launch the Expa Labs program. To understand how we got to this point its worth taking a step back and looking at the foundation this program was built upon, as well as understand why we build Labs in the first place. I started building the program thinking about first principles.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

Therefore the best way to keep your company alive is to instill in every employee a decisive mindset that can quickly separate the crucial from the irrelevant, synthesize the output, and use this intelligence to create islands of order in the all-out chaos of a startup.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

With the new Affordable Care Act in place, you’ll need to learn how it impacts you and your future employees. Small Business Administration Loan Programs. The SBA has several loan programs for startups. Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Product development.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2017

Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients. When employees are not treated as equal team member and are not recognized or rewarded for their hard work and dedication, either their performance drops or they leave. In short, venture capital is a lot like debt bondage.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 30, 2012

When I entered the VC business 10 years ago, I tried to keep thinking about venture capital as a business, where the key focus area was on meeting the needs of our target customers -- entrepreneurs and limited partner investors. requiring less capital), smart investors adjust to meet those new needs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

We need our own cafeteria so employees don’t have to leave the building. The new building telegraphed to our employees, “We’ve arrived. Stay hungry, stay lean. I don’t want to be hungry and lean (nor do I want to be full and fat). We didn’t have enough conference rooms. Everyone left the building for lunch.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. The employee picks a provider from a plan picked by the employer from the insurance carrier. This is then sent though the employer to the employee. In the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Navigating the transition between a salaried employee and running your own consulting business can be tricky. While there may always be unexpected expenses, your rent, phone bill, internet fees, invoicing software subscription or memberships fees, annual taxes, supply costs, and employee salaries (if any) should all be taken into account.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Burnout can turn productive employees into emotional zombies and destroy careers. Given the hardware I had worked on at ESL, learning microprocessors wasn’t that hard but figuring out how to teach hardware design and assembly language programming was a bit more challenging.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

The firm now has 600+ employees with Facebook vice-president Jay Parikh and former Symantec chief executive Enrique Salem on its board as of August 2013. By all accounts, venture capital in Australia is still a big issue – especially when it comes to substantial Series A and follow-on funding rounds. Hub Australia.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

In fact, IdeaLab employees around 50 people who are not necessarily dedicated to a single company. When he tells his stories from the 1990′s your realize that he was probably the original “lean startup.&# They are very hands on. they can build teams that really focus on building & marketing great products.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2020

Jeff Epstein is on the board of Shutterstock, Twilio, Kaiser Permanente, and was the CFO of Oracle, DoubleClick, Nielsen and King World and is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He teaches the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford with me. Review all marketing programs. Action This Day. For immediate action : 1.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner. Great art and great programming are fostered within a community that shares an ethic of care for its members.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Allen, Greylock, and General Atlantic wouldn’t be in the building on weekends and neither would the employees bother to come in.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Here I was, a very junior employee of ESL, a company with its hands in the heart of our Cold War strategy. Nine months into my year tour, and seven months into my reading program, I was learning something interesting every day. (We All You Can Read Without a Library Card It was 1978. We could do what!? From where??)

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The food movement is one of the reasons for the rapid growth of Plated , a ff Venture Capital portfolio company which makes it easy and fast to prepare home-cooked meals. This is precisely one of the strategies that Google uses in their cafeteria to promote healthier employees. They’re cheaper, more fun, and healthier.

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