Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Luckily (or maybe because we were in Silicon Valley where there was a domain expert for everything) there was a very smart consultant in the retail computer space, Seymour Merrin, who preached about the importance of packaging. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.)

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. I have recently been doing some research on Entrepreneurship in Brazil, while also trying to start my own company.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

But it’s easy for Silicon Valley startup founders pitching venture capitalists to forget all the advantages we have in the United States. Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil. I’m not belittling the challenges American startups face. Check the P-List. Ignore the odds; be a survivor.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

But it’s easy for Silicon Valley startup founders pitching venture capitalists to forget all the advantages we have in the United States. Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil. I’m not belittling the challenges American startups face. Ignore the odds; be a survivor. Proactiveness.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

But places like Brazil and India are estimated at 20-30% and Japan and South Korea at <15%. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Internationally Facebook’s user growth is still accelerating, but there are clear regional differences. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

And then, at my first Silicon Valley startup , I watched friends get laid off in successive waves as it started to fail. Be sure that you´ve already helped me and some friends a lot (down here in Brazil) to become better entrepreuneurs. No business model, either. It seemed like just a bunch of research-oriented PhDs.

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