Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2013, everything changed. To survive in a crowded marketplace, businesses had to pool their resources, so they could operate more efficiently and capture more of the market share. I partnered up with Harrison Woods, then-Managing Director of Primal Parking. Pick the right business partner. Focus on customer service.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 2013 = $25 billion of which Apples stage is more than $8 billion at > 90% gross margin. In my mind, the best VCs actually deliver outsized returns by “leaning on the scale” not by “deal sourcing.”

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and disabled artists. She started ArtLifting with her brother, Spencer, in 2013, and acknowledges her youth and enthusiasm have been assets. Liz Powers.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on May 17, 2013. If I was an aspiring entrepreneur, I would take a vacation during RISE week and attend as many sessions as I could (author’s update note: sadly, RISE is no longer operational). For example, you get on the phone with a business partner and they kiss up to you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. Coming from an operating role in a company, that can feel odd - that doing nothing is in fact accomplishing your objective - so that takes some getting used to.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 2, 2016

A family-owned and operated shop on historic Route 6 in Troy, Pennsylvania, Mill Street Treats sells a variety of flavored popcorns, roasted peanuts, ice cream, and more. Though he worked as a shop teacher until his retirement in 2013, he had previous experience as a business owner. “I Choose partners you can lean on.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Finally, that this was not the first highly successful tech IPO in Australia in 2013 with OzForex raising AUD $439.4 From starting the company on a AUD $10k credit card in 2002 to raising $60m from Atlas Partners in 2010, Sydney-based enterprise software firm counts Twitter and NASA among their clients. It’s not hard to see why.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 23, 2015

Although the way we spend our days are different than the teams we’ve backed, Homebrew started in Jan 2013 with the goal of feeling like a startup, just one which writes checks instead of code. Get Homebrew operations up and running. To lean in and help them get to the right answer faster on anything they considered urgent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. She served as the U.S.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. We were basically emailing Excel workbooks back and forth to our bank partners every day.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But there is also opportunity in lean times. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. Two of the three have gross margins <50% (AMZN is 40%, AAPL 38%, MSFT 67%) and one has operating profit margins <5% (AMZN 4%, AAPL 22%, MSFT 34%). Survival is the order of the day. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. This number was updated from its previous cap of $250,000 in 2013. Operating a successful farming operation will happen a lot more easily if you have a good relationship with your neighbors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They are now operating in nine States.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But there is also opportunity in lean times. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. Two of the three have gross margins <50% (AMZN is 40%, AAPL 38%, MSFT 67%) and one has operating profit margins <5% (AMZN 4%, AAPL 22%, MSFT 34%). Survival is the order of the day. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

In starting ADDISON Yacht Charters, we began market analysis and business planning efforts a full year before we launched the company in November 2013,” says owner Scott Bessette. A lean business plan would be a perfect fit for your business. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Angel Investment Guide.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

By Kathy Jensen, Partner at CST Group . According to an AICPA 2013 report, for the last 20 years women have represented about 50% of new CPAs in the accounting profession. I joined CST Group in the summer of 2012 as a Senior Manager, and recently was named partner. How can I achieve success in my career?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. So I decided to found a fencing club and in 2013 established “Academy of Fencing Masters” in Campbell, California. Every single thing we do is meant to have an impact in the company. 9) Endless Possibilities.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

I am a physician and former caregiver to my amazing dad, who passed away in 2013. Using the Lean Startup methodology, I created a quick landing page but was stuck searching for a unique name for the company. My business partner Isaac and I came up with the name Baby K’tan. 1-Paired the concepts of navigation and physician.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works. EB : Yeah.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Lean Methodology Sources. Part 3- Lean Cust. About VC Cafe.

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