Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Venture Capital ; met with the local hardware/software venture capital firm. Incubators : toured the TechArb , the engineering student accelerator, and the Michigan Venture Center in the University’s Tech Transfer Office. You Can’t Start a Fire Without A Spark – A Lack of Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. When I told him, “two more days,” he asked, “Are you interested in meeting with venture firms in the Valley?” ————-.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Which brings me back to your mobile phones. It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Disruptive innovation leads to the creative destruction of businesses that once seemed pre-eminent and secure.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

China has embraced state capitalism in a way Wall Street can only dream about. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? mobilized scientists in a way no other country had. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Like the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

First, the shift away from desktop computers to mobile devices meant that Intel’s power-hungry x86 processors weren’t suitable. All of Intel’s resources – fabs, manufacturing strategies, and most importantly executive mindset — were geared towards large, expensive x86 processors, not low-cost mobile cores of someone else’s design.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

China has embraced state capitalism in a way Wall Street can only dream about. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? mobilized scientists in a way no other country had. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Like the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Silicon Valley, New York). Here’s how. Because We’ve Always Done It This Way.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Silicon Valley, New York). Here’s how. Because We’ve Always Done It This Way.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. Do the new wave of social/web/mobile/cloud companies going public have valuations which exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. You have to deliver.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] What a sly dog you are (wink) having set your “competitor&# up for failure. Good read and thanks to the comments on this post. Good stuff too.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The cycle of creative destruction of the old being replaced by the new continues, fueled by angel and venture capital. Platform changes (web to mobile), faster technology (3G to 4G to 5G), commoditization of tech (Cloud). And therein lies the catch – investors have longer memories of failures than new entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:28 am Said: [.] livro e nesta série de posts como manifesto, Steve Blank dá explicações detalhadas dos problemas que há no modelo de Product [.]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Scalable startups require risk capital to fund their search for a business model, and they attract investment from equally crazy financial investors – venture capitalists. When they find it, their focus on scale requires even more venture capital to fuel rapid expansion. They hire the best and the brightest.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

military to rearm and mobilize. Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $’s) We’ll Do Great in the Next War Early in 1950, just months before the outbreak of the Korean War the Office of Naval Research asked Fred Terman to build an Applied electronics program for electronic warfare.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

As it turned out, rather than run me out of town on a rail, the two venture capital firms that had lost $12 million in my failed startup actually asked me to work with them. If you’re in a technology company or build a web or mobile application, it’s probably the only way to start a company. No one ever sets out to fail.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Post-war era Americans were equally mobile, willing to move where the opportunities were. ” Given that ERA’s extraordinary technical work was unknown to anyone other than the NSA, Parker didn’t think he could raise the money via a public offering (venture capital as we know it didn’t exist.)

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In Stage 2, the corporation adds venture capital and/or mergers-and-acquisition teams to provide these functions. Examples of Stage 2 Outposts include: BMW’s Silicon Valley development group, working on self-driving vehicle technologies, while their venture group has been making investments in companies like ChargePoint and Nauto.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:37 am Said: [.] He writes about it a lot, but here’s a great post elaborating on his view that most companies try to apply Product Development processes to Customer [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. While most of the social networks, cloud computing, web and mobile app companies we see today will fail, a few will literally remake our lives. Here are two views how.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Reply Yuri Ammosov , on December 15, 2009 at 4:28 pm Said: Hmmm. OK, customer development is NOT a focus group. Then WHAT it IS?

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation. private investors spent $300 billion last year to fund new ventures that can move with the speed and urgency that the DoD now requires. In the U.S., And we’re not.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply Gibson’s Blog » For mobile, size does matter , on October 18, 2009 at 7:06 am Said: [.] Reply Links and Thoughts, Monday 10/19/09 | Recess Mobile Blog , on November 18, 2009 at 5:33 pm Said: [.] of huge losses made by Nokia. out of the building is a lesson for Langley. Customer development isn’t just for [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

But what if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? At the same time, Venture Capital, which had viewed therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices as hot places to invest, is fleeing the field. Venture Capital Issues.

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