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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. On top of all this it was considered very bad form not to have at least four additional consecutive quarters of profits after an IPO.)

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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Medical Devices and Digital Health

Steve Blank

government is the leading payer for most of health care, and under ObamaCare the government’s role in reimbursing for medical technology will increase. Because device IPOs are rare, and M&A is much tougher, liquidity for investors is hard to find. Companies must pay a medical device excise tax of 2.3% Venture Capital Issues.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions. So why is demographic diversity important? We still shouldn’t tolerate it.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Its this second point I want to emphasize.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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Startup Resources

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Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Ad Serving Technology. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. SVPG : They want to share senior level experience and best practices with technology companies. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. Customer Care Today. Here’s why. 10 Blogging Tips.