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| Page 1 of 7 | Previous | Next | 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. | 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. | | | | | |
| 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. | | | THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. DECEMBER 5, 2011 Reverse Engineering a Career He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. realized that a position at Union Square Ventures was going to be open in a year and that he had a terrific chance of getting it. It was an exercise in reverse engineering. I run into a lot of people trying to switch careers and join a startup. | | | | | | | |
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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 >> -
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 >> -
THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2010  Anything is Possible (in a Startup)
Don’t try to reverse engineer your resume to try and figure out who would hire you. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY I know you're out there. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. know that you're afraid. Google is. You're afraid of startups. MORE >> -
SEED STAGE CAPITAL | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 A Better Way To Ask For Investor Intros
In addition, subscription databases such as Capital IQ and Pratts are good but expensive; some universities have them so you might get an MBA to help you here. The email you write should go something like this: “Hi Nathan, I see you are connected to Lewis at ACME Ventures. Subscribe to Seed Stage Capital. Let me explain. 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 >>
- The Office Matters A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2010
- Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2010
- How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
- Parting Ways With A Founding Team Member A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010
- Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011
- Being Fat Is Not Healthy A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010
- Mobile Economics Will Trend Toward Web Economics A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2010
- 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
- The Creative Phase A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010
- Are Business Plans Still Necessary? BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009
- Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
- “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009
- MBA Tuesday A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011
- The Bad Board Member STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011
- The Academy For Software Engineering A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012
- Steel In Their Eyes – Why VC’s Should Be Startup CEO’s STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2011
- The best vesting schedule HIGH CONTRAST | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2010
- Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011
- VCs Who Code A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010
- The Twitter "Patent Hack" A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
- Tracking the Hiring Funnel THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011
- If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2011
- Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2011
- This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4 BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010
- Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010
- Backing Founders vs. CEOs STARTUPCFO | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011
- Founder Labs (continued) A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011
- This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2 BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010
- A Look Back At Summize A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
- Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2011
- Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011
- What's Wrong With Sensationalist Media A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012
- The Scene Will Kill You BRAD HARGREAVES | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2010
- Want To Be A VC? Start A Company. A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011
- Skip The Water A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2011
- Seed Milestone: Build The Engine GET VENTURE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010
- Lean A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
- Hacking Innovation Education in New York THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010
- Having the wrong map versus no map at all THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011
- hot or not? JASON BALL'S TECHBYTES | MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2011
- Why Governments Don’t Get Startups STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
- 250 Developers THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 2011
- Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3 BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011
- One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2011
- Why do panels suck and how can we make them better? THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
- Changing the Wrong Ratio THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2010
- Venture Region Survey Results: Comparing The Valley, Boston & New York GET VENTURE | TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010
- The Fundraising Cadence For Tech-Lite Companies GET VENTURE | THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2010
- MongoDB A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2010
- Talent and Bandwidth A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
- usv.com/jobs A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2011
- Brief Thoughts on Angel List, "Social Proof", "Spray & Pray", & The Network Effects of Large Scale Investing 500 HATS | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011
- Why We Need An Independent Invention Defense A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2010
- Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2011
- Spring Startup Fever A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 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
- Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012
- Profitable: To Be Or Not To Be? A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2011
- Oh shit, it’s working: How not to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011
- In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010
- Quirky and The Cone Of Silence A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2010
- Looking at the World Through Plan-colored Glasses THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 2010
- No City Has A Lock On Innovation A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011
- On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
- Immigration Reform A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010
- VC Firm Jobs Page A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011
- Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009
- Immigration Reform And The Jobs Bill A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 2010
- NYU Poly Speech A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011
- Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009
- Is Your Startup Fat or Lean? TIM BERRY'S BLOG - PLANNING STARTUPS STORIES | MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2010
- Introducing Online Marketing School THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010
- Should every startup get funded? THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2010
- My Partners A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
- The Ascent of Q&A as Community VENTURE CHRONICLES | TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011
- Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2011
- The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011
- eBay Comes To NYC A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011
- Zeev Holtzman: Israeli VC is on the verge of collapse [but wait, there's more] VC CAFE | MONDAY, MAY 30, 2011
- Make No Little Plans – Defining the Scalable Startup STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2010
- Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2 STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011
- Mentors, Revenue Based Financing, and Misperceptions About Venture Capital ASK THE VC | MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
- Seeking Venture Intern GET VENTURE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2011
- How VCs Do Tech Diligence GET VENTURE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011
- Branding and social spaces: Why Google+ misses the mark THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011
- Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2011
- Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2011
- Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2010
- Startups and VCs Should Avoid “Pier” Funding BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010
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