Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” It’s an impressive portfolio. Yet some startups such as Biotech don’t have market risk, instead they are dominated by technical risk. Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. While there was an occasional bad apple, the public markets rewarded companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits. What Do VC’s Do?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Surprisingly, I enjoyed seeing other startups from an outsider’s perspective. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, Cabinet members who are responsible for vertical portfolios still manage the government’s large functional agencies, and there continues to be significant overlap between those who handle commercial, defense, and diplomatic policy. Originally, all of America’s computer chips were produced in Silicon Valley.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets. And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. About Fund III.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

Each week we like share our thoughts on a range of topics from vertical markets to general startup advice and our reflections on investing. Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley”. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, every company past “A” has a distributed team.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. 10% of Feenix’s portfolio companies have received VC equity prior to their financing. ARR of $500K+.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Middle-class families and low-income earners are among those who are more likely to leave, given the difficulties in the housing market in California. As a vertically integrated company, oWOW cuts costs which are then passed on in the form of lower rental prices to tenants.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Silicon Valley 100. Notes like this are part of Grahams ongoing process of steering them through the thickets of Silicon Valley startup life. Our portfolio speaks for itself.". Sometimes we pay the market price because thats whats on the table.". Law & Order. 10 Of The Deadliest Boat Disasters Of All Time.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Before, I was part of a portfolio, so an allocator who buys stuff and sells stuff, but I never ran anything. The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. Marketing, for example, customer, product organization, et cetera.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It reminds me of living in Silicon Valley 10 years ago when so many foundational SaaS companies were started. There are now eight software companies north of a $100 billion market cap, representing $2.7 trillion of market value. If we zoom out and look at the overall cloud market, we can see momentum building.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. Their VC firm, In-Q-Tel , has been in business for 10 years, and like most VC firms they have an annual event where they show off their new portfolio companies to their limited partners and other VC partners.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. Sevin Rosen in Dallas launched the next year and throughout the 1980s and 1990s the two firms vied for their place in the Texas market.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Even in 2006, when I joined Bessemer Venture Partners, there was still a lot of skepticism in the Silicon Valley around SaaS (one of my first blog post in 2006 was titled: “W hy I disagree with Tony Zingale — CEO of Mercury Interactive — on the future of SaaS "). What’s the n°1 startup that you wish you had in your portfolio?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

As he grows, he can simply focus on increasing the restaurant portfolio and getting more corporate clients. I also advised him to avoid consumer marketing and market his service through the HR departments of the corporations as an employee benefit. It would be much cheaper to acquire customers this way.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

They market and they sell. Well, at the very heart of the marketing and selling problem is the concept of lead generation. As the Internet became mainstream, this was largely replaced (at least in the universe we live in) by email marketing campaigns, so the key information was the email address of a lead. Social Contacts.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. didn’t care/focus enough about discovering how to market eventvue. The market was not there. It was a time to do some marketing. Slow to adapt to market reality. Contributing to the high cost structure was the new culture of working 9-5 Monday through Friday.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Might be kinda large market., The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. He researched his market, he thought hard about how he thought it might ultimately monetize, he built a prototype and he created a very compelling vision for where he thought his market would head.

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