Steve Blank
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Advisory Board members are often paid in a balance of equity (stock options) and cash (“cash” is the industry term for money wired to your bank account). If they won’t discuss any aspects of runway or value of the equity package they’re offering, look elsewhere. A Board of Directors has a formal and legal role. Look before you leap.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
In spite of this, private equity funds have used the rallying cry of efficiency to hijack corporate strategy and loot the profits that historically would have been reinvested into research and development and new products. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 16, 2016
Risk capital takes equity (stock ownership) in your company instead of debt (loans) in exchange for cash. Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). The Bad News.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations. When they graduate, the Stanford students on these teams have the pick of jobs in startups, companies and consulting firms. Every year they fund several teams as they launch companies.
Steve Blank
APRIL 26, 2022
Venture capital, like most private equity, is an unregulated financial asset class – anything goes. ” On one hand they’re right. But the simpler and more painful truth is that it’s abusive and usurious. Many VCs have no moral center in what they invest in or what they’ll do to maximize their returns.
Steve Blank
APRIL 8, 2022
Integrate and incent the Venture Capital/Private Equity ecosystem to invest at scale. Instead of writing requirements, DoD should rapidly assess solutions and engage warfighters in assessing and prototyping commercial solutions.
Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2009
luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.
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