Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. On my view, the best students (and employees) are the ones that are there for the enjoyment of the process. From the king of customer development, Steve Blank: [.] You just get successful.

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