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. What’s Different.

Silicon Valley 317

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 317

Gust

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It’s the result of several decades in high tech, three years as an investor in a local Oregon angel investment group , some consulting in due diligence for venture capital, and my experience as founder and co-founder of successful ventures. Startup experience. There’s no good substitute for that experience.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Software Review Angel Investor Exit Strategy 70

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

by Susanna Camp and Jonathan Littman, co-authors of “ The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed “ How do you build your best startup team? It’s more essential than ever that you bond and mesh with your co-founders and first hires. Consider this legendary example. The Accidental.

Startup 165

Startup Cofounder Oregon Demand 165

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

My story of transitioning from a Columbia MBA to a chef & consultant was featured on The Huffington Post (in both written + video format), Bustle, Brit + Co, Swaay Media and the print books *Knives and Ink* (Bloomsbury) and *Amazing Women Entrepreneurs* (due March 2017). Customers are won and products are built by great team members.

Entrepreneur 74

Entrepreneur Social Media Haiti Baltimore 74

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD enabled this innovation with safer, cheaper, and more reliable quantum dot technology that it’s licensing from M.I.T., UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. You can read more about our window technology in the latest issue of Chemical Engineering Progress.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Startup Harvest .Net 54

YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2018

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. You will need to invest your time into getting clarity about your market and customers and building momentum around your product. . You will need to build champions for your product in order to convert customers from their existing way of doing things.

Non-Compete 100

Non-Compete Oregon Cofounder Green 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. A Sense of Purpose.

Leadership 150

Leadership Southern California San Diego Hiring 150