Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Products requiring changes to government regulations. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. If you want U.S.

New York City 202

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs in Beijing were knowledgeable about Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship and the state of software and tools available for two reasons. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S.

China 216

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The mantra of “ first mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their market, became the conventional wisdom of investors in Silicon Valley.“

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation. On September 24 in the U.S. Here’s what they had to say.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Products requiring changes to government regulations. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. If you want U.S.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 254

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley. Despite the overblown stories about the decline of Silicon Valley, the fact is that it remains the strongest entrepreneurship network in the world.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley. Despite the overblown stories about the decline of Silicon Valley, the fact is that it remains the strongest entrepreneurship network in the world.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. Write a business plan for your desired new business. Check out local sources for coaching and assistance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

Most retail and commercial banks offer investment services to their customers, but these services have nothing to do with investing in your business. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. It Started with an Idea.

Oakland 306

Oakland Asia Lean Video 306

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Most retail and commercial banks offer investment services to their customers, but these services have nothing to do with investing in your business. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing.

Silicon Valley 362

Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Term Sheet 362

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Products requiring changes to government regulations. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. If you want U.S.

New York City 120

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 120

Up and Running

JULY 24, 2014

From government grants to alumni donations, something might work for you that wouldn’t be a good fit for others, or something that hasn’t worked in the past could be on the table for your organization at this point in its growth. For some organizations, government funding is ideal and straightforward.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This is the first of two posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– Building Blocks of Entrepreneurship By the mid 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States.

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David Teten

JULY 29, 2011

Franklin Bi became passionate about venture capital and entrepreneurship after he spent a summer in Silicon Valley, working on an information services startup focused on innovation management. Franklin Bi. Hailing from the great[est] state of Texas, Matthew Fairbank is nonetheless fortunate to be sidled with only a minor Texas drawl.

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Venture Capital Software Review New Jersey Technical Review 133

Up and Running

JULY 5, 2016

While we may think of a major hub like Silicon Valley as a prime example of an entrepreneurial city, the reality is that these epicenters of growth may not always offer the most supportive climate for new businesses. Ranked number one on WalletHub’s Best Cities to Start a Business, Sioux Falls is a great place to put down roots.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. You kids have to learn to do it the old fashioned way they did it before they new economy and Silicon Valley. Yeah, I said.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

John Jantsch (02:29): So I'm curious, how did you get into the business of advising startups? Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. You know, could you look at my business plan? So I know what it's like. You put it out there.

San Francisco 97

San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

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. Why It’s “Silicon” Valley. It might be its most important.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Jonathan Swift.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 292

The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2018

North America is not just about Silicon Valley. For years, Silicon Valley has been synonymous with the North American startup scene. Silicon Valley all about innovation and thinking big and yet, it’s cultivating this homogenous culture. Let’s find out. And, there’s a reason for that.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Vivek Wadhwa, a leading entrepreneurship researcher at Duke University, offers a piece explaining why so many well intentioned attempts to copy Silicon Valley fail. They commonly tout Silicon Valley and North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park as examples of the success of government-supported clusters.

Silicon Valley 44

Silicon Valley North Carolina Government Incubator 44

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank. this may well be the most ambitious government-sponsored startup catalyst effort on the globe. Other than the NSF Innovation-Corps program in the U.S.,

Colombia 322

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. Sean Seton-Rogers of PROfounders Capital recently claimed that of the more than 3,500 business plans they had received, his London, U.K.

Entrepreneur 82

Entrepreneur Technical Review Silicon Valley Lean 82

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Jonathan Swift.

Silicon Valley 263

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 263

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may allow venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Silicon Valley, New York). Victor Hugo. When The Boardroom is Bits.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. —-. [Up

Government 120

Government Channel Southern California Lean 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank. this may well be the most ambitious government-sponsored startup catalyst effort on the globe. Other than the NSF Innovation-Corps program in the U.S.,

Colombia 278

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 278

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. It Started with an Idea.

Oakland 271

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 271

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Clearshore is a “matchmaker&# that helps small businesses get their fair share of the $60-billion US government budget for R&D and innovation. His big payoff from this effort is the chance to put a few lines of copy about his latest venture, Clearshore, at the bottom of each podcast link email.

Silicon Valley 201

Silicon Valley California Vertical Customer Development 201

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. This approach would shape Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial ethos: In startups, failure was treated as experience (until you ran out of money). Yet this system isn’t perfect. – seems like another planet. Until today.

Engineer 280

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Most retail and commercial banks offer investment services to their customers, but these services have nothing to do with investing in your business. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing.

IPO 205

IPO Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering 205

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Let’s say you have a great business idea that leverages the power of technology to meet a certain consumer or lifestyle need. If you believe that your idea is worth the effort of putting together a business plan and going through the development and funding process, you may have a potentially lucrative tech startup.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established. This textbook combines the strength of my Silicon Valley experiences as a venture capitalist and Mannie’s research as a professor, and it will help strengthen Chinese college-education programs in this particular field.

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Venture Capital China Technical Review Due Diligence 44

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

Most retail and commercial banks offer investment services to their customers, but these services have nothing to do with investing in your business. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing.

Silicon Valley 211

Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211