Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

As local governments work to transform their regulatory environments into ones that promote and nurture the establishment and growth of small businesses, it’s becoming easier to measure and rank their efforts. An engaging, informative, and easy-to-navigate website is an investment in the growth and enrichment of a community.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2020

A grant is financial assistance awarded by the federal, state, or local government. If you’re pursuing a grant, government and SBA options are likely the most common but difficult routes to go. Venture Capital and Angel Investment. It encourages lean operations and can help you avoid taking out too much funding early on.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

New York 116

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

While this signaled that investments in technology companies could be very lucrative, both Shockley and Fairchild could only be funded through corporate partners – there was no venture capital industry. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. A wave of innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses. startups that don’t fit whatever’s hot in venture capital.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. China’s top dogs include the likes of GGV Capital , Sequoia China , IDG , Qiming , and a handful of others.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

Silicon Valley 120

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

For a number of years, my partner Jason Mendelson has been teaching an extremely popular course at CU Boulder Law School with Brad Bernthal titled Venture Capital – A 360 Degree Perspective. Our goal will be to put this up on the web as well to provide content (and potentially interaction) to a much wider community.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

How to build regional entrepreneurial communities has just gotten it’s first “here’s how to do it” book. Feld’s thesis is that unlike the common wisdom, it is entrepreneurs that lead a startup community while everyone else feeds the community. They are not run by the government or any single organization.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

He went on to tell me that he’s been working on his startup for 8 years… and only started selling the cars this year… and that he had invested several million dollars through venture capital and personal funding. I was totally blown away. After this he said: “Am I a Startup?” You might be surprised.

Silicon Valley 115

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 1, 2012

He believes in the theory of localist and giving strong power to local government and weak power to national / federal government. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Josh Lerner: The subtitle summarizes the book nicely - Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed–and What to Do About It.

Hawaii 119

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. Low handicaps weren’t good!

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. 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. NAME David Cowan.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. The scene will kill you. This should not deter you. It simply doesn’t work that way. Absolutely.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

David Goldhill, in his enlightening book Catastrophic Care , declared: “…a guiding principle of any reform should be to put the consumer, not the insurer or the government, at the center of the system. Some members of the “urgent care” community are intelligently rebranding their services as “convenient care.”

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2020

Jeff Epstein is on the board of Shutterstock, Twilio, Kaiser Permanente, and was the CFO of Oracle, DoubleClick, Nielsen and King World and is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He teaches the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford with me. Some companies, and perhaps some governments, may default. Action This Day.

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Salary Lean Equity Government 329

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2010

How to Kill the Design Community – [link]. Venture-Capital Firms Caught in a Shakeout – [link]. What Lean Startups are NOT – [link]. Government embraces crowdsourcing – [link]. Showcase of Textures in Print Design – [link]. The Crime That is Business Clip Art – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. I see a TON of conscious capital opportunity in there, too. These women.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

Are you seeking a loan or investment from an angel investor or venture capital firm? A lean business plan would be a perfect fit for your business. Even if you do intend to pitch your business idea to lenders and investors, you can start with a lean plan, and flesh out the rest of the info later on.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

cities to start a business in for 2016 ), you will need to focus more on access to angel and venture capital funding, business incubators and accelerators, and a climate that is supportive of startups. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has even claimed that he foresees Boston becoming the tech capital of the world—a bold statement, indeed!

Los Angeles 60

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business? First Principles.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. 45% of all unemployed people have been looking for jobs 6 months or more – this is unprecedented.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It is company 500px who has a beautiful product and a burgeoning community on the iPad and web. Including ff Venture Capital’s unique approach to finding deals and the services they provide to their startups. And ff Venture Capital cleverly has created a blog where their portofolio companies contribute.

Los Angeles 303

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

As part of this spin out I’d make sure the Government also supports the nascent U.S. As I said, I am far from an expert in the auto industry, government bailouts or other related big “businesses”. Maybe the public can be better served by the government just subsidizing battery research. with the auto bailout. Reply Michael F.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Lean methodologies have changed the way science is commercialized in the U.S. government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. How the U.S. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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