Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. 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. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. Virtual Stock Exchange.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. I actually think this is a pretty innovative model.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21 st century.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? It was 1991.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

But what if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? At the same time, Venture Capital, which had viewed therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices as hot places to invest, is fleeing the field. Venture Capital Issues.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Small businesses are grocery stores, hairdressers, consultants, travel agents, Internet commerce storefronts, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. Scalable startups require risk capital to fund their search for a business model, and they attract investment from equally crazy financial investors – venture capitalists.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days. venture capitalists put $8.1 It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Search » Featured Posts.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Microcredentials for the Effective Venture Capital or Private Equity Investor. Dorking (how to find anything on the Internet). 10 tips for smarter, more efficient internet searching. Whenever we hire someone new to join Versatile VC , I tell them: Welcome! As background, I suggest you read: VC-specific resources.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

So you should tailor your funding search and your approach. Myth #1: Venture capital is a growing opportunity for funding businesses. Actually, venture capital financing is very rare. Venture capital. The business of venture capital is frequently misunderstood. This is not the case.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 24, 2019

You may recall that we opened a search for an associate last summer. Unfortunately, we didn’t find someone who was the right fit for us – and decided to take a short break from the search. A year ago, we set out to add to our team. We’re beginning to restart the process of finding our third team member.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Venture capital as a profession is less than half a century old. Early-stage Venture Capital firms grow their partnerships in different ways, some hire: partners from other firms. Here’s why. ——-.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

There is a list of the most searched for jobs in Vancouver. or Indeed are used by HR professionals searching to hire within the British Columbia tech industry. target Vancouver for marketing/tech industry job searches. million in venture capital to move. Montreal is a spot for new start-ups and venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer). He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. In search of Europes next tech stars. A short interview on Bloomberg about where I see venture opportunities in Europe. internet. (6). Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies. Here your options are limited primarily to large organizations with deep pockets, including government grants , universities and large enterprise sponsors searching for disruptive technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Thus is venture capital. Thus begins the venture capital dance.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 13, 2015

All the articles about how capital efficient businesses were a result of AWS, better software development tools, easier starting points, better scaling technologies, and lots of other things. Internet of Things wasn’t yet a buzzword. The Most Capital Efficient U.S. Venture Capital Tech Exits of 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. The wealth of data available online is already much larger than the entire Library of Congress, and much more current.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. New Rules for China.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies. Here your options are limited primarily to large organizations with deep pockets, including government grants , universities and large enterprise sponsors searching for disruptive technologies.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. Over 45% of Yelp’s* searches begin on mobile. For each and every Internet company out there, mobile is rising as a percentage of all user visits. It’s like magic.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. The Internet May Liberate Us. The Internet May Kill Us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

But with the speed of the Internet, these have become as old-fashioned as museum curators. Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. Dharmesh is the founder and CTO of HubSpot, as well as a blogger and speaker on the topic of startups and Internet marketing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. Dan: Our goal is really to get beyond search social and the inefficiencies that search social and mobile have introduced to us.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Just do a search online and the VC’s job is done! Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. ff Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Last week I had a chance to interview Kyle Stalzer, President at Tackk (a portfolio company of my firm, ff Venture Capital ), about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: How to Recruit an A-Quality Designer for Your Company. It’s become a truism of the modern internet that design matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2020

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. The wealth of data available online is already much larger than the entire Library of Congress, and much more current.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. New Rules for China.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. Carpe Diem. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He invented the category of sponsored search. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? Overture (Goto.com).

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