Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

This year, with the kids grown, their choice was to fly up from Southern California and spend the holidays at our ranch. So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. California, where even the rabbits are bigger than life! Order Here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#

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socaltech.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Southern California. Silicon Valley. High Tech News and Information for Southern California. The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part III. Californias various startup accelerators and incubators. Accelerator Crazy In Southern California.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Note that I merged the two Southern California regions (LA/Orange County and San Diego) into one. Silicon Valley. Southern California*. Southern California = LA County, Orange Cty and San Diego Cty. Silicon Valley. California*. All Seed-VC. New England. New England.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ). 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ). 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

If anything using the word “Silicon” seems a bit derivative to NorCal. Interestingly, nobody I know in NorCal EVER calls it Silicon Valley, “Silicon Valley.” Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. I was a former entrepreneur. Don’t you think? I had run 2 companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. And this Silicon Valley bias isn’t limited to any single meeting – it has been a recurring theme in my time as a VC. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Even when you’re a small fish, it’s just easier to find your way around,” he said in an interview with The Next Web on the sidelines of Silicon Beach Fest. In Miller’s view, passion sets a startup apart because it gives entrepreneurs the drive to keep going even when they encounter obstacles. Image credit: iStockphoto.

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 4, 2013

This announcement comes on the heels of EGFS’s recent Southern California expansion into San Diego. While Silicon Valley has historically held the title for tech entrepreneur hub, the Los Angeles region is hot on its … Continue reading →'

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Over the last year or so, I’ve been writing about tactical fundraising to try to help new entrepreneurs with their seed rounds. Everywhere I go — whether it’s here in the Bay Area or on the road — entrepreneurs tell me that it just takes so much time to connect with investors. So, I’m trying a little experiment here on my blog.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It Instead, Silicon Beach, a roughly 3-mile stretch of sand from Venice to Santa Monica , is home to Viddy and a host of other young tech companies with an entertainment, celebrity or mobile edge. Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Astonishingly, the entrepreneurs took the deal. This was a crazy deal for the entrepreneurs to take. The entrepreneurs did say that they wanted the business expertise of one of the sharks. The entrepreneur was definitely a big personality and hilarious, but all the sharks quickly passed.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. Up until then] the capstone class – meaning the best class you could take for being an entrepreneur in a university – was how to write a business plan. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. The Lean LaunchPad class.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. You’ll never make a great entrepreneur. So your journey to fund raising begins by strengthening your relationships with other entrepreneurs.

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www.jasonnazar.com

MARCH 22, 2011

I asked the panelists ( David Travers , Brian Norgard , Fouad ElNaggar , & Demian Sellfors ) about the specific challenges that we face down here in Los Angeles as opposed to Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs that start companies in LA are often focused on revenue and business models.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly. We are hands on. We have a great screening process.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. We just finished our second Hacking for Defense class at Stanford.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

In coming months, many entrepreneurs are looking for the best sources to help fund the startups they have planned. Whether the end goal is to exit, be acquired, or have enough in the bank to launch, it’s important for entrepreneurs to find the companies that can help them do it. Southern California.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Soldier, Scholar, Entrepreneur. Ironically, I was first introduced to Joe not at Stanford but through one of his other lives – that of an entrepreneur and businessman – at the company he founded, BMNT Partners. Joe Felter was just appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 4, 2012

He had no doubt that had he started the company in Silicon Valley, he would have received funding, but the paying customers are all in Southern California — a lot of car manufacturers are based in LA and that makes up a good chunk of his clientele.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eleven universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , University of Southern California and Columbia University. Over the next year it will expand to 22 universities.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

This part quarter also saw larger seed VC medians reaching $1 million for the first time ever, which leads CB Insights to suggest that the “the frenzy for seed VC investing is allowing entrepreneurs to raise larger seed rounds than in the past.” Virginia is number two in the amount of funding over the past quarter.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. anyway for the american economy as a whole it would be a disaster if your entrepreneurs started dreaming small.

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