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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

I thought we were going to talk about her product progress, so I was a bit taken aback by her most pressing question, “Why is it so hard for a woman to still get taken seriously by a venture capitalist?”. I had a better one when I came back from New York. New York Startups. Women in New York Startups.

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Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Steve Blank

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. The answer of course, was Venture Capital, but that was not in the cards—as yet.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Luckily Eric Ries was spending a few days in New York, so we sat down in the middle of Times Square and hashed this out.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were. Will : Yes, and that was my first brutal intro into the difficulties of raising venture capital where I lived. . Steve : There is probably is no venture capital for 50 miles, if not 500 miles. . Nayeem Hussain. Will : Absolutely.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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