Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. He is also planning to launch in Boston and Chicago by December. The Free Rider Problem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. 11:53] Is there anything about what’s going on right now in the current business environment that you think makes us a strong time? [15:25] It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth.

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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. Business model? 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. Traction and revenue?

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Instead, students need to write two blog posts, comment on two of their classmate's posts and participate in a business model excercise modeled after Steve Blank's "business model canvass" exercise at Stanford. We do not have a final exam. You can see the course blog here.

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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. Time: 5pm to 6pm Location: Hilton?—?Salon

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Technical Review Austin Texas Cofounder 89

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

. ———– The National Institutes of Health recognizes that Life Science/Health Care commercialization has two components: the science/technology, and the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. In fact, most of the most active investment firms are located there, although NY now has moved solidly into second place (ahead of Boston). Here are some key action items that will give you some priority: Create an investment-grade business plan.

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Venture Capital Revenue Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley 233

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost. Silicon Valley, Boston).

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Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. They are anyone who runs his/her own business. They work as hard as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Soren Harrison, from Boston, Massachusetts, presented SolSolution , a solar electricity venture whereby his company places solar panels on the roofs of schools, generates electricity, sells it to the schools, as well as back to the grid, and takes advantage of the federal rebates, incentives, etc. SolSolution. Who funds the solar panels?

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Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

His posts are born of tremendous research into the secret history of Silicon Valley , and if you haven’t read those essays, you should. We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. Let me be clear: Steve is the historian.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

This week, the startup tribe from Harvard Business School is making their annual trek to Silicon Valley. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship. That’s why I am so excited about a new course that is debuting this year at Harvard Business School.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

You’re in Silicon valley, competing against the best of the best. Kevin – consumer Internet plays, often times they don’t have a business model. Rick – I’m a Boston-based VC. In your case, come to Boston. Should I move to Silicon Valley? . Like marriage but worse.

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Developer Silicon Valley Software Review Mexico 103

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). “Silicon Valley” (see Note 2) is hardly alone in this urbanization of startups trend. April 13, 2012. I was back in the SF Bay Area last week for a bit of work and a bit of fun.

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Is “Data” a Business Model? Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. So is “data” now a new business model, as some suggest? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. March 30, 2012.

Business Model 113

Business Model Silicon Valley Advertising B2B 113

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D and part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. . Today, large companies are creating Innovation Outposts in Innovation Clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. These challenges may be either strategic or tactical.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

No business model, either. And then, at my first Silicon Valley startup , I watched friends get laid off in successive waves as it started to fail. All my products and ideas focus on early cash and a business model that works from the first day. So, the idea of starting without a business model is good ?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Agile VC

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Amazon vs Apple: A Tale of Two Business Models. What’s striking to me is the polar opposite business models Apple and Amazon have established to crack the same nut. Apple has a marginally profitable digital content business which drives a highly profitable hardware business. October 3, 2011.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area. Then above that is business model power—so, how do you make money?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. Even in New York the number of startups percapita is probably a 20th of what it is in Silicon Valley. It is irresponsible not to think about business models. Bad Location Startups prosper in some places and not others.

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Startup Software Review Hiring Detroit 108

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2013

They also favor entrepreneurs who are experienced in starting a company, and experienced in the business domain of the startup. Your business model may be very attractive, but if you are new to this game, you may not be fundable. Angels like to get involved directly with the team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

You have to know your business model. Most startups launch before theyve figured out what business theyre in. In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. Most startups arent so fortunate. March 13, 2009 11:20 PM Urs E.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2012

They also favor entrepreneurs who are experienced in starting a company, and experienced in the business domain of the startup. Your business model may be very attractive, but if you are new to this game, you may not be fundable. Angels like to get involved directly with the team.

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Angel Investor Silicon Valley Exit Strategy Boston 245

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2011

They also favor entrepreneurs who are experienced in starting a company, and experienced in the business domain of the startup. Your business model may be very attractive, but if you are new to this game, you may not be fundable. Angels like to get involved directly with the team.

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Angel Investor Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Exit Strategy 244

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. TechCrunch article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. In fact, nine of the ten most active investment firms are located there (with one in Boston). Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

” I think the crux of SQUARE’s business model is obviating the need for merchants to have an acquirer account with a bank. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 22, 2017

With geography, there’s the Silicon Valley and then, everywhere else. But of equal importance is how deep, experienced your team is (they “invest in the jockey and not the horse”), how much traction you have achieved (customers and time in business) and how scalable (leverageable growth) is your business model.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

They know this and know that weapons that can be built at a fraction of the cost and upgraded via software will destroy their existing business models. Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation. In the U.S., To do so he started the Defense Innovation Unit ( DIU).

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Ukraine China Private Equity Russia 277

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. The story to date is a familiar one.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. So how did this happen? Where is it going?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. As an active participant in the Silicon Valley new venture ecosystem and entrepreneurship educator, Im intrigued by the recently announced program Venture for America (VFA). VFA is sending high achieving recent college grads into small businesses and start-ups in inner cities.

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