Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

By then, I had become a venture capitalist at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and found myself talking to a lot of entrepreneurs who were proclaiming their great technology yet were struggling with little revenue, and claiming they were “crossing the chasm”. We kept talking, with Steve asking “How long are you staying in Silicon Valley?”

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. The SharePoint cloud eco-system is not sufficiently mature, and for Daniel to be able to realize his vision, he needs to get enough application developers active soon. There is one problem with the strategy, though.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. Brett was formerly SVP of the Marketing Cloud at Salesforce with an enormous organization of sales, marketing, implementation, sales engineers, etc. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how to build an initial sales organization.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. Red All Over: Newspaper Revenues Fall In Q3 – [link]. 20 Creative Business Card Designs | Pixel Clouds – [link]. Want to create a new habit?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture. In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. 1M/1M will be working with Microsoft in helping entrepreneurs prepare for these grants.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. We have just entered the mania phase.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Almost a thousand SaaS/cloud startups have been launched over the past decade, and in each niche there are opportunities for concept arbitrage using this basic formula. I am very glad to see Girish and his team going after one such opportunity.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. Miller detailed a series of crises that took place at Cornerstone roughly every $3 million in revenue.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Your results, thanks to our high performance compute cloud should be available within an hour. DNAnexus ( www.dnanexus.com ) is pioneering the combination of cloud computing and whole-genome DNA sequence analysis. Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. We have a deep technology stack.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

Cloud computing is another great example here of how companies are doing more with less. For a small company that has revenue and accounts receivable, you probably are more inclined to Monetary Policy as it has more to do with your ability to access debt capital from banks through credit lines.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Ranking the Top 10 Cloud Startups – [link]. 25+ Epic Web Design In Cloud Based Software Apps – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

Headquartered in San Francisco, AppDirect makes it easy for businesses to find, buy, manage, and monitor cloud services from a central location. They also give providers and developers an easy way to distribute, sell, and market cloud services. Well, not always, and the process of managing multiple cloud services can be a mess.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

FitzGerald is the co-founder and CEO of Submittable , a cloud-based submission platform used by thousands of publishers for accepting and curating digital content. But we did eventually raise capital outside Silicon Valley. in revenue. revenue) before they write a check. This is not a great feeling.).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

For me it is a useful shorthand for a very clever set of product features that in my mind would be hard to remain a stand-alone business or themselves to generate enough revenue to justify the company’s existence. We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. It’s about 10 minutes long.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A couple weeks ago, I attended the 13th Silicon Valley Annual VC/Entrepreneur luncheon organized by NVCA. Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. My Investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. Stating the obvious but you can’t will a region into success.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

You don’t have the revenue or profit to support that valuation.” Can it be that Silicon Valley (the HBO show) isn’t farcical enough? But by coining it, making a logo and repeating it Salesforce.com became associated with leadership in cloud, um, software.) That is how absurd thing have gotten.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 25, 2012

Backblaze, a leader in cloud storage, just celebrated its fifth anniversary. The company now boasts millions of dollars in revenue, and more than 30 petabytes of managed storage in its data centers. While the company is now profitable and its seven founders are getting paid salaries, that wasn't always the case.

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readwrite.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

There’s a lot of talk in Silicon Valley about the decline of consumer Internet companies and the rising interest in companies that sell software to enterprises. And nobody is loving this more than Aaron Levie, the 27-year-old co-founder and CEO of Box, which sells cloud-based data storage and collaboration software to enterprises.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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). Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Objective Logistics has created a game layer on top of very sophisticated scheduling algorithms which increase revenue, save time, and improve customer and staff satisfaction. Part lives in the cloud and part is embedded in point of sale (POS) software systems. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 9, 2011

Last week marked the 6th year for the conference "Launch: Silicon Valley." Entrepreneur Dan Levin, the COO of Box.net (cloud-based storage service) 3. It also leverages your key skill set as entrepreneur, which is to bring a new idea to life and grow it (much more so than to grow the revenues of a more mature company).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

12:22] Would you look at the value derived by digital technologies differently than by producing customer value or revenue? [14:23] So would you look at that as a different, would you look at that value derived in that manner differently than you would say producing customer value or revenue? Therefore, what data do you need?

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Believe it or not this is actually a big story in Silicon Valley right now. For the past few years we’ve had people calling themselves “investors,” who have no experience investing, swanning around the Valley, slinging money at people calling themselves “entrepreneurs” who have never held an actual job, let alone run a company.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

The 1M/1M affiliate program will create additional revenues for some, and for some, this could be their first decent revenue option. Next, Michael Issa, from the San Francisco, CA, pitched Quipu Applications , which is a cloud based business plan financial modeling application. Quipu Applications.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

If youre making revenue, you should be finding ways to grow it predictably month-over-month; if youre focused on customer engagement, your product should be getting more sticky, and so on. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

It has graduated nearly 100 companies in Boston alone, generating millions of dollars in funding and local revenue. Boston still stings from the departure of Y Combinator, the accelerator known for backing Airbnb and Dropbox, in 2009 for Silicon Valley. Startup accelerators have lost a bit of luster in the past couple of years.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. I also advised him to apply for the Microsoft Startup Challenge grant in the cloud category. Today, the financial picture of a CCS is updated only once a month in a batch process.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue. You can find details in the blog post on [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. What is the right revenue model? Consider this question: what percentage of all books that are purchased does the buyer actually finish reading cover-to-cover? Thanks again for a great post.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Every year, Microsoft bigwigs trek down to Silicon Valley and brief the VC community on their view of the world and plans for the future. When he joined college buddy, Bill, the company's revenues were $2.5m. Just as when I had attended the event in the past , the highlight was Steve Ballmer's address.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As you know, the Google productivity apps portfolio is getting very good traction within enterprises, and through our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series , we've heard from various CIOs who are moving from Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange to Google's Office suite. One of the primary drivers of the switch is cost.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

When you are on a mobile device using cloud-based services there is something transformational in play, which is that not only are you bypassing many of the controls that dictate how you use apps but you are also using a network that is not under the control of your company. 1) Mobile creates clash of user experiences.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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