VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

With NVIDIA’s Israel-1 AI supercomputer, a broad range of innovative companies in Israel will create AI that can transform the productivity and business models of enterprises around the world.” Kooply , a game development engine in stealth, was of the 20 winners of the 2024 Game Changers list by Lightspeed Ventures.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Scalable startups require risk capital to fund their search for a business model, and they attract investment from equally crazy financial investors – venture capitalists. Their job is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. They hire the best and the brightest. lesson of using SBIC funds.),

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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Open Source Business Model Technical Cofounder Southern California 150

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

—— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Startup Accelerators: Startup Sauna and Vigo which includes Lifeline Ventures , KoppiCatch , and Veturi. Business Angels: FiBAn , Sitra. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 324

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. I actually think this is a pretty innovative model. talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. in Computer Science.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

For decades this revered business magazine described management techniques that were developed in and were for large corporations – offering more efficient and creative ways to execute existing business models. The Four Steps drew the distinction that “startups are not smaller versions of large companies.”

Technical Review 219

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 219

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with 90% of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Now, this age-old perspective on business may sound like a line from It’s a Wonderful Life , but putting families first has new meaning for modern entrepreneurs. They aren’t operating on big bankrolls of venture capital (at least initially), and they don’t have trust funds to fall back on if the business fails.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Silicon Valley Bandwidth 180

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

According to my experience and a this Motley Fool article, the challenge is very real, with around half of all new businesses no longer existing after five years. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. more in Small Business. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island South Dakota 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don''t attract investors failing within the first three years. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. billion U.S.

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Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 301

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2024

It makes me wonder – are startups still founded by people with a passion for creating something new?

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Vietnam Venture Capital Business Model Engineer 179

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

According to a recent Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Try innovating inside a large company where 99% of the company is executing the current business model, while you’re trying to figure out and build what comes next. And they also recognize that simply exploiting their existing assets, capabilities, and business models is insufficient for long-term survival.

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Incubator Lean Agile Business Model 402

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

Universities ; including the business, design and engineering schools in the Catholic University of Chile who are hard at work teaching and encouraging their students to think big and to start companies. Venture Capital. Applied engineering (top 10 annual challenges from the mining companies). food science?

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Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. 2) Business model-defined funds. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Obtaining a competitive advantage while improving consistency and quality ensures that the supply chain will soon embrace flexible business models and become more efficient. Each of these conditions then helps these companies find new and better clients while filling each business’s unique needs.

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Germany San Jose Technical Review India 175

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. It might be its most important. ———-. Cold War Spin Outs.

Engineer 305

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 305

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

According to my experience and a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

There is a common belief in the angel and venture capital community that you put your money on the best team, rather than the best idea. It starts with having a vision and an ability to get the message across in your elevator pitch, in a written business plan and one-on-one with potential investors.

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Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Software Review 152

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. business models. Their leadership has shown incredible foresight in engineering an amazing economic engine and formidable military.

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. The founders.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. The NSF will fund 100 science and engineering research projects every year. billion U.S.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 278

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. Venture Capital innovation people.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last quarter of the 19 th century, what Perez calls the Age of Steel and Heavy Engineering, saw the growth of America’s first national corporations in railroads, steel, telegraph, meatpacking, and industrial equipment. Venture capital firms, as we know them only date back to the 1970s.) See here for background on horizons.).

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don’t fully understand how venture capital works.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Networking 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don’t fully understand how venture capital works.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Balance Sheet 69

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

For example, creating an experience management platform requires subject matter expertise, programmers, quality assurance, implementation specialists, professional services engineers, and a roadmap of future functionality requests.

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