Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2010

It was clear that he had no memory of a phone conversation my partner and I have never forgotten. This partner lived up to his reputation and helped us hire an experienced, world-class CEO from a large consulting company that we thought would be the guy to take our company to a billion dollars (think Internet-bubble Kool-aid.).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , is a former General Partner at Goldman Sachs with with 35+ years of experience in the global capital marketplace. We didn’t really formalize the relationship in terms of equity and decision-making and ownership… Because we couldn’t come to an agreement, we put off the decision. Two were half time.

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Entrepreneur New York Cofounder Equity 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

A few foreign VC firms like IDG Capital Partners entered China in the early 1990s. Fast forward a decade, today the Private Equity and Venture Capital business is booming in China with over 1000 firms actively investing. It went bankrupt in 1997.). Investing in China Today.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

TechStars and Startup America are partnering to provide mentors in the U.S. They don’t ask for equity and charge just enough to cover the costs of pizza and the room rental. The class is organized, led and delivered by Startup Weekend , the global non-profit that teaches entrepreneurs how to launch a startup in 54 hours.

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Open Source Silicon Valley Lean Customer Development 335

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster.

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Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 312

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

A few foreign VC firms like IDG Capital Partners entered China in the early 1990s. Fast forward a decade, today the Private Equity and Venture Capital business is booming in China with over 1000 firms actively investing. It went bankrupt in 1997.). Investing in China Today.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. government accelerator that takes no equity. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. This kind of makes it one of the largest accelerators in the United States, probably up there with TechStars and Y Combinator except it’s a U.S.

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Government Channel Southern California Lean 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

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. Award equity to employees equal to the value of their reduced salaries. He teaches the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford with me.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Luckily, I teach with two great VCs, Mar Hershenson of Pear Ventures and Jeff Epstein of Bessemer Venture Partners who both put together presentations unraveling the mysteries of how and why startups raise money. You may be in a multi-sided market with other customer segments/partners that are critical to your business.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Beijing engages in predatory economics – driving states into significant debt burdens forcing them to make “debt- for equity” swaps in places that undermine their sovereignty Its Belt and Road Initiative makes infrastructure and other investments with a clear nationalist agenda. To do so, we.

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Russia North Korea Technology China 326

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Beijing engages in predatory economics – driving states into significant debt burdens forcing them to make “debt- for equity” swaps in places that undermine their sovereignty Its Belt and Road Initiative makes infrastructure and other investments with a clear nationalist agenda. To do so, we.

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Russia North Korea Technology China 125