Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

by Bill Lewis, co-founder at Temasys Communications. It rose in 2009, but never regained its upward trajectory. The traditional flows of goods, services, and finance appeared then, and now, to have stalled. Global trade dipped in 2008. But, in reality, globalization was heading into a new phase. And the digital product.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience. We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders. We’d never hired anyone.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Did I mention it only took the founder a month? David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing. There is no fork.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

While 2011 is only eight years ago, it’s a lifetime in the world of finance, private equity, venture capital, and business. The first is from David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group co-founder – one of Blackstone’s competitors) in 2006. And then, a year later, the global finance crisis was in full bloom.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are, of course, millions of published articles and blog posts about entrepreneurship, business, finance, and management. Of particular note to small business owners are courses covering small business management and strategy, marketing, and finance. Fortunately, we live in the golden age of online learning. ” edX.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. But all things are never equal. (Of

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2013

Cancer research and treatment may just have gotten a shot up the arm – Singapore-based Clearbridge BioMedics has just announced that it successfully closed a S$9 million Series B financing round led by Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd, the wholly-owned VC arm of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

He invested in a new division in his company in 2009 and has expanded significantly since then. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Today, he is worth $1.5

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are, of course, millions of published articles and blog posts about entrepreneurship, business, finance, and management. Of particular note to small business owners are courses covering small business management and strategy, marketing, and finance. Fortunately, we live in the golden age of online learning. ” edX.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. So can three founder companies (hello, @biz, @ev, and @jack).

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. The fact is the technical co-founder will be doing more work at the start. Be confident with the skills you do have.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

by Paul Aitken, CEO and founder of Borro. Aitken served as Chief Operating Officer of Myriad Group AG from March 13, 2009 to July 23, 2009. He co-founded Movota Ltd. Thinking Aloud bank loan borro Paul Aitken personal asset lending personal asset loans personal banking personal finance'

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Adeo Ressi , the founding member of TheFunded , recently announced the establishment of TheFunded Founder Institute. The Founder Institute helps founders launch innovative companies by providing training, services, and company-building assignments, such as incorporating the business, filing provision patents, and setting up books and records.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2017

by Owen McGab Enaohwo, CEO and Co-Founder of SweetProcess. A designer working on a new brochure, for example, might need to view the progress of a copywriter working on the text, but he wouldn’t need to see how the finance department is interacting with the distribution company.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. You can start by examining every aspect of the co-founder relationship.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2013

During the chat, Musk recounted how close he came to failure with both Space X and Tesla in 2008 and 2009. Musk said that he financed Space X to have enough money for its first three launches. Speaking at the Dublin Web Summit on Thursday, Elon Musk refuted the assertion that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs aren’t afraid to fail. “I

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

Every time he opens his mouth about founder diversity, he seems completely out of his league to address the topic. The biggest question I think VC''s face right now is whether or not, in the future, the best founders will look and act like the best founders of the past. YC''s best investing days may be behind it. That''s 25%.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

I am reminded of this problem every time my firm does a financing where a note went before us but more specifically I was reminded by this great post by Brad Feld to talk about the pre-money vs. post-money conversion issue. This was until about 2009 because most the investments in companies came from one, maybe two, sources.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Excepting for cosmically co-incidental success stories, the fuzzy requirement stuff never congeals as a holistic engineering exercise. Crosby made this argument in his book "Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain" (Mentor, 1980) April 2, 2009 6:24 AM The Caretaker said. krasicki April 3, 2009 7:19 AM control valves said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. In the end, I believe they co-created our product with us. April 27, 2009 10:54 AM DSarathy said. Leveraged distribution channels. Great post!

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

In 2009, Tim started Investimonials, LLC, which was essentially a TripAdvisor for the finance industry. He is also a co-founder of Karmagawa , a company that exists to donate to charities and give them exposure in addition to preserving natural resources and assisting the less-privileged.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 12, 2018

Billion acquisition, Quentis Therapeutics picking up $48 million in financing, and Paige.ai Radformation , founded by Kurt Sysock and co-founders Alan Nelson and Elisabeth van Wie, is an early-stage oncology software company that works with state of the art radiation equipment. raising $25 Million--all to fight cancer.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies. They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 9, 2010

I had lunch today with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola, the co-founders of Everlater , a TechStars 2009 company. Nate and Natty are two of my favorites – not only because they regularly kick my partner Seth Levine’s ass on bike rides but also because they starred in last year’s TechStars The Founders video series.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. Box had just 50 employees and was hitting an inflection point when I joined in 2009, so there was far more work to do than people to do it. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

4:32 pm on September 3, 2009 Reply Tags: business (100) Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. § [.]. link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] Finding cofounders is a biggy, and because 99.9% link] Finance Geek » How To Develop New Startup Ideas. [.] Dividing equity between founders » Home.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

a16z played disrupter, launching their first fund in 2009, based on a bold set of statements which, even if they were not individually unique, had never been combined before into a firm. All of their partners had to be former founders (since relaxed), sounding the bell that not just operators, but founders, would make the best investors.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Travis Biziorek. Hi D, Gosh, this post was way back in late 2009. I, too, like you were back in 2009, am involved a start up project. I don’t have a technical co-founder on my team but am apt in graphics design and have a lot of ideas bursting out of my head. Post navigation.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. Check out the personal finance topic by clicking here.

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