Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. I pointed out that there were.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email closed by saying, “The project is a hybrid between academic and entrepreneurial circles and I’d really love to begin a dialogue with people in the academic world also interested in solving this problem. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. Pull a Blondin (see: Do They Believe? ); make the service provider prove their belief in you by getting on your back as you step onto the proverbial entrepreneurial tightrope. Pyramid Power. Consultant.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

Ever since I began my entrepreneurial journey, I really believed in the idea of social entrepreneurship, and having this diversified bottom line where it's not just about near term profits. Eric Ries : Again, let me push back a little bit, because I think people who are not from an entrepreneurial background are going to be confused.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

There is a growing body of literature that applies the work of Kahneman, behavioural economics and cognitive psychology more broadly, to the world of entrepreneurial finance. We are not all rational, checklist-focused, and we are also not all affective, or cognitively-inclined.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. IP Location Tools. Video interviewing. NESTA : They invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programs that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future. VC & Startup Resources.

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