Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. ” Well, I really wanted to be a general partner but there weren’t a lot of general partner openings.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Reply One difference between VCs and Entrepreneurs « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog , on April 20, 2009 at 7:06 am Said: [.] Blank: “Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups. Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large [.] in Entrepreneur, VC, decision making.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. He and his wife Gwen would found the Computer Museum, first in the lobby of DEC headquarters, then in Boston (and now as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2016

Dave’s note: Our guest author this week is Kevin McDonald, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Alvaka Networks, a network services and security firm in Irvine, California. By Kevin McDonald. The goal is to “phish” a person into taking actions they shouldn’t. So what does phishing look like?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. A good way to think about market segment is by thinking about fishing.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. Are These Your Slides? I quickly leafed through them and replied, “Sure they’re our original slides.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Also, there are a variety of strategies for “easing out&# gracefully such as finding an outsourcing vendor or new partner. I’ve watched new CEO’s brought into large existing consumer products companies to turn around a failing strategy. Their new strategy included a complete revamp and simplification of the product line.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. It's a genuine win-win: people need food, and we have massive unemployment at the same time.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

A creator and producer of social media, Michael’s responsibilities include leadership for the design team, concept creation and strategic consulting for highly engaging interactive experiences. He is a former chairman of the Business Software Alliance, and currently is Chair of the LA Chapter of the Technology Council of Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

. “Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Or at times an even more honest answer, “My senior partners say this is the only way to do it.” Why change something that has worked so well over the last three decades?” Or, “Look at our returns, its always worked for us.” That’s a better return than having 10 out of 10 companies succeed and each return 2x our money.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 29, 2020

And on top of all of that is the lack of clarity about when things will really begin to change (my partner Brad wrote an excellent post on the disorientation this is causing a few days ago). Many of us now know people who have not only gotten sick from COVID-19 but know someone who lost a family member or close friend.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Leadership and Managing >. One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. Start-up | Mondays. Finance | Tuesdays.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The second was when a Southern Californian aircraft company decided to break into the missiles and space field by partnering with Stanford electronics expertise. The Navy informs Terman that, “money was not a problem but time was.” and the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons at this point.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2018

And, in various ways we help all new businesses make connections with local organizations that can link them with potential partners or customers, which is particularly useful for companies just entering this market from other parts of the country or the world. What makes the FCEDA unique? And then there is our international focus.

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Early Growth Financial Services

AUGUST 22, 2013

New VP of Sales to lead EGFS business development efforts in California San Francisco, CA Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsource accounting, finance, and tax support firm that provides on-demand services to early-stage companies, has just announced a new partner to their leadership team.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. What’s bringing them here?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. But it's also a really interesting story, because Los Angeles was very early in rolling out drive-through testing for the City of Los Angeles, thanks to the leadership of Mayor Garcetti.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

35:20) Inspiring acts of leadership and working hard. (35:50) My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. (

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Bend needed its own venture firm.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Hard skills such as data analytics are essential to being successful as a product manager, but equally-valued are soft skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership. I might have pursued a humanities education at a “ kumbaya college ” in California, but it’s only human to be at least a little bit selfish!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

This is important, since leadership roles will likely shift during the mission. It’s important that you remember (or ask your partner to remind you) not to fall back on actively thinking about a solution; rather, let your mind remain blank and clear. Who’s in charge of what and when? Communication.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. I remember after a month or two of talking to 14-22 year old male gamers (our potential target market,) I realized that for the first time in my career I had no emotional connection to my customers or channel partners.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You leave the comfort of your existing job, convince a few partners to join you and you jump off the bridge together. You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. At each startup I couldn’t wait to do this. Great, sign me up.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Ecosystm + Incubator = Ecobator. There are conference rooms with audiovisual systems and seating for 250.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Partners Booths While your booth may be small, some of your potential or existing partners may have much larger ones, in much more visible locations. For a small company this is like throwing your tradeshow money on the floor. Look for locations near entrances, food concessions, rest rooms, seminar rooms, or close to major exhibitors.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Ecosystm + Incubator = Ecobator. There are conference rooms with audiovisual systems and seating for 250.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) steve Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "376,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged Amp, [.] carry on reading.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

After describing the uncertainty private investors were feeling about the future of the economy, the outcome of the presidential election, and other factors, Fast Company quoted Brian Hughes , a partner at KPMG (one of the organizations responsible for the Venture Pulse Report): “It’s a challenging time for VC investors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I’m a partner in his latest venture, the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) , the newest addition to his long history of reinvention work that spans industries ranging from football to banking. A hospital wants to know what percentage of up time it has on its CAT scan machines. So I launched Liguori Innovation to do that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. One of their partners reached out to us after the key paper got published late last year. We are staying in the same Airbnb that we stayed in the past five months since arriving in California for YC. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far. Eric Ries : Amen to that.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Ecosystm + Incubator = Ecobator. There are conference rooms with audiovisual systems and seating for 250.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Their VC firm, In-Q-Tel , has been in business for 10 years, and like most VC firms they have an annual event where they show off their new portfolio companies to their limited partners and other VC partners. And I could have sworn they all had the same badge.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. We were able to raise a Seed round from Bessemer Venture Partners on a powerpoint idea, and never found the repeatable customer model. Anything that is not a standard VC dozen format will get thrown away by a junior associate with MBA before it is ever seen by a partner.

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