Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. Look at the early Silicon Valley companies – Homebrew Club =>PCs. It’s a big idea.)

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The offering is a managed service, priced at $7,000-$10,000 for a one-time setup fee and a $2,500-$3,000 per month maintenance and services charge. Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Is it inventory risk that Statisco manages well?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This is the first of two posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– Building Blocks of Entrepreneurship By the mid 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Developers, designers, and finance experts from around the world go through a rigorous process that includes live screening and weeks-long test projects before being invited to join Toptal’s network. Online talent recruitment and management is a crowded space. And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

This is the second of three posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– The First Valley IPO’s Silicon Valley first caught the eyes of east coast investors in the late 1950’s when the valleys first three IPO’s happened: Varian in 1956, Hewlett Packard in 1957, and Ampex in 1958.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. According to John Borchers, Co-founder, Decathlon is the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR. Decathlon Capital. Key elements: . “We

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. They built airplanes out of palm trees thinking if they did manna would come in airplanes again. Warning sign? At best. ~ Is 20 years enough?

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. One day, I was at the Ford Wixom auto assembly plant training my replacement and I was at met at the door by an irate plant manager. the manager followed us still yelling. These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.”

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

By Daniel Sokolovksy, Co-Founder and CEO, WARP and Troy Lester, Co-Founder and CRO, WARP The dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was more than just a bank collapse, it was a reality check for both startups and the VCs that fund them. That includes us. As an early-stage company that just closed our seed round at $8.1

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Our small training department had been without a manager for months and finding a replacement didn’t seem to be high on the VP of Sales list. Then it hit me – no one else wanted to be manager – what was the worst that could happen? What’s the Worst that Can Happen? All I had to do was ask.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Get The Answers I am very excited to share with you the opportunity to meet the Managing Director of Growthink's new media and entertainment practice, Mr. Lee Muhl. In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Get The Answers I am very excited to share with you the opportunity to meet the Managing Director of Growthink's new media and entertainment practice, Mr. Lee Muhl. In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Silicon Valley 100. Notes like this are part of Grahams ongoing process of steering them through the thickets of Silicon Valley startup life. Google Ventures managing partner Bill Maris strongly denied Grahams accusations, calling them "patently absurd.". " Finance Jobs.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Homebrew, an early stage venture firm focused on this same revolution has illustrated the following: An engineer or designer gets work by offering his skills via vertical marketplaces. This isn’t just a Silicon Valley CEO spouting the magic of technology – the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data supports this trend.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

A bit like Silicon Valley. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. Dara manages Uber’s fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. Because that’s something that we all in Silicon Valley [need to do].

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

GLIIF, LLC is a Hot Silicon Valley Startup designed to disrupt QR Code usage in advertising. It just seems to me that having a great idea without Silicon Valley connections becomes an obstacle. We believe we have created the quintessential, web based, strategic goals and performance management system in GoalTrak(R).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Sloan realized that the traditional centralized management structures (like General Motors had in 1920) were poor fits for the management of GM’s already diverse product lines.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Benson's business needs $500,000 to get off the ground, buy a machine, and meet the operating expenses, and he primarily came to discuss his financing options. My assessment is that this is not a traditional venture financing type deal. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In other companies it may be that manufacturing or finance is the sharp end of the stick. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. I’ve encountered finance organizations with budget processes designed to simplify their lives, but not the rest of the company’s. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

It tells the finance, marketing and sales teams nothing about how to uniquely market and sell in each type of startup, nor how to predict the resources needed for success. The Experience is the Product | Better product management and products , on September 23, 2010 at 12:17 pm Said: [.] make-or-break. Order Here. Now In Print!

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. It’s just fascinating, especially from a Silicon Valley perspective. I am Ezra Klein and my guest this week is Bill Gurley.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. And they’re largely right.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. I finally told him – hey I am managing the region and doing the work of these VP’s you keep firing.

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