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| Page 1 of 10 | Previous | Next | A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY MAY 22, 2010 The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. When I do a quick mental query of headcount across our entire portfolio of ~30 companies, I think at least 50% and maybe as much as 60% of the entire headcount of our portfolio is in either product or engineering. They will be managers. | WILL PRICE MARCH 6, 2007 Introduction to Venture Capital The class, the Entrepreneurial Engineer , is a graduate course for engineers interested in starting their own companies. The professor, Roger Melen , asked that I provide an overview of the venture capital industry, insights into the venture process, and a suggested play book for entrepreneurs looking to raise venture capital. | | | | | |
| STEVE BLANK JULY 25, 2011 How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VC’s Got It Wrong Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. Scientists and Engineers as Founders. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Venture Capital. | | STEVE BLANK NOVEMBER 1, 2011 Steel In Their Eyes – Why VC’s Should Be Startup CEO’s Venture Capitalists who are serious about turning their firms into more than one-fund wonders may want to have their associates actually start and run a company for a year. Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Venture Capital is still a “craft business”. | STEVE BLANK MAY 21, 2012 Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley teach entrepreneurship for ~50 student teams a year from engineering schools at Stanford , Berkeley, and Columbia. Our extended teaching team includes venture capitalists with decades of experience. Facebook has adroitly capitalized on market forces on a scale never seen in the history of commerce. Technology Venture Capital | | | | | | | |
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 The Office Matters
They have big and interesting engineering challenges. Tags: Venture Capital and Technology Eatsy at Etsy Originally uploaded by Etsy Labs. Our portflio company Etsy has a person who is focused on the office, company culture, and making the work space as comfortable as possible. They called that program Eatsy. It matters. MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011  A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley
If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. Sand Hill Road – Adventure Capital. MORE >> - Storm Clouds
We are also seeing a massive talent war for software engineers going on in Silicon Valley and it is spilling over into other regions. The story by Mike Arrington this morning about a Google engineer is just one example. Tags: Venture Capital and Technology Investors are showing up at the first meeting with term sheets. MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011 Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project
Max entered Stanford in the fall of 2010 as a freshman, took as many of the engineering entrepreneurship classes as he could and independent study with me. Many investors invest 2-3x more capital than necessary in startups that haven’t reached problem solution fit yet. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital. MORE >> -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012  How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy
There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. Others that are experts in this field include Matt Harris at Village Ventures and Jim Robinson at RRE. Raising money is hard. MORE >>
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- The Creative Phase A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010
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- The Twitter "Patent Hack" A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
- Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2011
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- Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011
- The Bad Board Member STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011
- Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011
- Reverse Engineering a Career THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011
- What's Wrong With Sensationalist Media A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012
- A Better Way To Ask For Investor Intros SEED STAGE CAPITAL | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012
- Will Google Ventures Disrupt Venture Capital? ONSTARTUPS | TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011
- Anything is Possible (in a Startup) THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2010
- What's the Secret Success of MINT.com? The Real Numbers Behind Aaron Patzer's Growth Strategy CHRISTINE.NET | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009
- How Well Do You Take A Punch? A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012
- Lean A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
- Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011
- How to Be a VC: Being Open THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2012
- Driving developer adoption HAZARD LIGHTS | FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
- Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2011
- If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2011
- Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012
- Don't Forget Brooklyn: NYU's plan for the old MTA headquarters needs to happen THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011
- Two years of mistakes (and counting…) STARTUPCFO | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3 BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011
- Skip The Water A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2011
- Hobbyists A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013
- The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
- Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2010
- Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked PASCAL'S VIEW | SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2010
- Tracking the Hiring Funnel THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011
- Why Governments Don’t Get Startups STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
- 10 Ways for Startups to Survive the Valley of Death STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013
- China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5) STEVE BLANK | SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013
- This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4 BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010
- This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2 BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010
- Harvard's Go-To Venture Capital Firm FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013
- Mentors, Revenue Based Financing, and Misperceptions About Venture Capital ASK THE VC | MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
- How to Meet and Mix with VCs at SXSW CHRISTINE.NET | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011
- Valuing Startup Employee Options DAVID TETEN | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
- The best vesting schedule HIGH CONTRAST | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2010
- No City Has A Lock On Innovation A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011
- Brief Thoughts on Angel List, "Social Proof", "Spray & Pray", & The Network Effects of Large Scale Investing 500 HATS | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011
- Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2011
- The IPA A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013
- Startup Communities – Building Regional Clusters STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012
- Profitable: To Be Or Not To Be? A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2011
- Backing Founders vs. CEOs STARTUPCFO | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011
- Indeed A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
- One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2011
- Networks And The Enterprise A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2012
- Parting Ways With A Founding Team Member A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010
- The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail ONLINE.WSJ.COM | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
- Talent and Bandwidth A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
- The Funding Gap GUST | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011
- If NYC is going to be a real innovation hub, we can't have our own senators supporting SOPA/PIPA THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
- Founder Labs (continued) A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011
- China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5) STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
- Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010
- usv.com/jobs A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2011
- A Look Back At Summize A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
- MBA Mondays Live and Skillshare A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011
- What I'm Reading This Sunday Morning A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2012
- Why We Need An Independent Invention Defense A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2010
- Spring Startup Fever A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2011
- My Partners A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
- The Mythical “A” Player and The CEO’s Real Job THINKING ABOUT THINKING | FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012
- VCs Who Code A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010
- When it was a game: Hoping Foursquare returns to its roots THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2013
- The Scene Will Kill You BRAD HARGREAVES | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2010
- Venture Capital Deal Buzz: Grubhub RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011
- Why do panels suck and how can we make them better? THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
- Getting Series A Ready STARTUPCFO | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
- USV Identity Talent Audition A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012
- Immigration Reform A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010
- Make No Little Plans – Defining the Scalable Startup STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2010
- The Helsinki Spring STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011
- hot or not? JASON BALL | MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2011
- Seed Milestone: Build The Engine GET VENTURE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010
- Venture Capital Deal Buzz: Box.net RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2011
- VC Firm Jobs Page A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011
- How come ability to hire isn't a criteria for investment? THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
- Entrepreneur Tools: The Returns Analysis SECRET FORMULA | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012
- Hacking Innovation Education in New York THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010
- eBay Comes To NYC A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011
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John Morris