VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It needs to help us to discover and curate content that is relevant to us from all the noise. Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. “What’s that film, the one with the German actor that my sister likes… something to do with aliens… really punky soundtrack?”.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 34:30 – 37:00). 40:30 –41:30).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. Dan: Jason, we’re certainly leaning more towards what you said. Mark: But Dan, I want to say, your language, you have to be careful about not coming across as a grumpy entrepreneur. Let me say this to you.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. He wanted to build an innovation pipeline that would allow the Navy to: Create “dual-use” products (build solutions that could be used for the military but also sold commercially, and attract venture capital investments.)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Its systems were struggling to manage the rapidly increasing torrent of information being collected. They realized that commercial applications of technology were often more advanced than those used internally.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 2, 2011

There's an old saying in the venture capital business: "Fund great companies, not great products or great features." Beautiful graphics and layout characterize this app, but what makes it brilliant in my opinion is they way it turns Twitter and Facebook into curated content channels. FourSquare.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards.

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