Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

But we didn’t have infinite cash; we had just emerged from bankruptcy, and unless we could get customers to quickly understand why our products were great, we were headed there again. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. You can also take the opposite approach on the “products that anyone can use&# [.]

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I got smarter about the world outside of Silicon Valley, met some wonderful people who made me feel part of their family and shared some thoughts about entrepreneurship. This post is a personal view of what I saw in what I call “Chilecon Valley” — in no way does it represent the views of the fine institutions I teach at.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. As a startup grows, venture debt becomes a viable option to continue that growth. It can be lower cost and can either buy more time or accelerate growth.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. you’re going to take some hits.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This time in what would become Silicon Valley. But Ford, with his emphasis on cash-flow, sort of had the last laugh earlier this year when GM and Chrysler declared bankruptcy while his company — under Alan Mullaly’s exceptional leadership — managed to avoid it. But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2011

If these challenges can’t be resolved by the existing team with “course corrections” or “pivots,” an investor will often bring in an experienced CEO to tackle the turnaround before or after bankruptcy. All this led to a staff level exceeding 700 employees, contributed to lack of control and eventual bankruptcy.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Some well-known Silicon Valley angel groups are Band of Angels, Sandhill Angels, TIE angels and others. maturity date is reached and the startup is unable to secure a round of financing, note holders can force the startup into bankruptcy. Individual investors who provide financial funding to startups are called ‘Angel Investors.’

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

In America, Silicon Valley’s cycles of creative destruction and renewal continuously spawn many new challengers– by funding multiple startups that compete relentlessly until they reach dominant self-sustainability, acquisition by a competitor, or bankruptcy. Why is this the case?

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Many others may end up filing for bankruptcy or doing an assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC). ProfessorVC. Thursday, April 7, 2011. Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Ways. We werent able to declare a winner, but I did agree to write a blog post on the topic.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Investors are counting on him to recreate that success in his next venture (which he is said to be eyeing in Silicon Valley), and they wouldn’t be wrong to expect great things—Quiroga’s record of success is uncanny. Sources say he is eyeing Silicon Valley, which has investors feeling confident.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

At its peak it became the most widely read magazine in the US and generated billions in annual revenue, before its circulation ultimately waned and the company went through reorganization by a private equity firm and ultimate bankruptcy. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

If these challenges can’t be resolved by the existing team with “course corrections”, an investor will often bring in an experienced CEO to tackle the “turnaround” before or after bankruptcy. All this led to a staff level exceeding 700 employees, contributed to lack of control and eventual bankruptcy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley. And now it’s even easier to build a big business outside of the Valley. But of course that’s horse puckey.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Lets Fix Everything that Was Broken At SuperMac we were excited to finally get out of the crummy tiltup we had occupied since the company emerged from bankruptcy. However, I’ve seen this story repeated time and again, and not just in Silicon Valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 26, 2017

Even in the face of doom and bankruptcy they can’t change. Usually their way is to mimic someone else’s or their own successful tactics from the past. Crazy, right? Every entrepreneur wants to innovate but some just can’t. Another type of cantrepreneur.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In his recent bankruptcy proceeding filing, John Ray III, the new CEO and Chief Restructuring Officer at FTX, minced no words: I have over 40 years of legal and restructuring experience. Silicon Valley (and most large US cities) are full of lawyers who have ample startup experience. Who is Coporate Counsel?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

I got overwhelmed with e-mail that week and basically declared e-mail bankruptcy, so I didn’t respond. If you’re a Silicon Valley billionaire, you want a flying car—because it’s cool. It was a few days before my wedding, which we had rushed to plan in less than 90 days because of my mom’s brain tumor. Check out www.kelekona.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were weeks from bankruptcy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

In three and a half years SuperMac’s market share went from 11% to 68%, as we went from bankruptcy to $150 million in sales. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Our new graphics boards became the market leader of the industry. png Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 30, 2019

Although I was studying physics, I would pick up the Financial Times every day and start reading the business section about Silicon Valley. I stay motivated every day as I once failed and had to put a company into bankruptcy. For me, I still remember that exact moment while I was in University. Photo Credit: Chris Carter.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In the past decade, the term “pivot” has become an integral part of the Silicon Valley lexicon. You’ll learn how the idea of Flickr came to him while crouched over a hotel room toilet in New York, desperately chugging ginger ale to fortify himself to speak at a gaming convention in hopes of avoiding bankruptcy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Back then Michael Arrington accused some of Silicon Valley’s top seed funds of “colluding” by meeting secretly to talk down the valuation of startups. In September 2008 this was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the rippling effect was massive. This is the biggest red herring of them all. What hogwash.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

I talked about the Silicon Valley memo that has been circulated for the past couple of years that says you should “fail fast.&# What I said was: “I’ve even heard people repeat this bullsh*t Silicon Valley mantra about “failing fast” which is horse puckey.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 27, 2017

A buddy of mine sold his first company to one of the silicon valley unicorns. While every successful company obviously didn’t give up, neither did all those folks who eventually wound up in bankruptcy court. Over celebratory drinks, he revealed that he’d been days away from going out of business.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. And just when I thought I had the deal that was worthy of bringing to investment committee the world changed. My prognosis?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 27, 2015

Trump does not know law (except regarding how to dodge it/leverage it with strategic bankruptcies) or the constitution. It’s a fact that the growth of Silicon Valley and USA high tech in general has been fueled by immigrants. Wisdom requires Domain Knowledge.

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