SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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. Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. This should not deter you. This doesn’t make sense. It simply doesn’t work that way.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

The combination of venture capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering, is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. billion U.S. This is a big deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. Amnesia sets in and we get back on the merry-go-round.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To my mind, it’s fear of the unknown that holds most of us back and not the thought of whether we’re competent enough or intelligent enough or whatever else we feel is needed to run a business. Or is it about running a non-profit soup kitchen for the unemployed? However, you can also start a corporation or a non-profit company.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. I also wanted to know who our existing customers thought we competed with. What did they think we stood for? If so, where?

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. But most start-ups in Silicon Beach are young and lean and cant afford to provide Silicon Valley-like perks as trumpeted by Google, such as free food, pool tables and massages. "If But there will be," Citron says.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

In a nutshell, the startup allows non-designers to use ‘Search and drag simplicity to create beautiful designs without ever leaving the Web.’. By all accounts, venture capital in Australia is still a big issue – especially when it comes to substantial Series A and follow-on funding rounds. Australia is not short on those.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. Too often people abandon their ethics because “hey the other guys is doing it, I have to to do it to compete.&#

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. Lean into it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Competing with such companies is pure pleasure – just harp on their mis-understandings of the market. Non-linearity is approaching. Non-linearity is the constant. Non-linearity is the change that you must be ready for. There are no verticals, there are industries and markets.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

In this manner, we determined what our market niche could be, and established whether or not we could compete in the existing market, and what it would take to succeed,” he says. 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.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. During this talk, well discuss the most effective techniques from Customer Discovery, Product Discovery, Lean Startups, Lean UX, Agile Development and Design Thinking to create real value for our customers. Palo Alto, CA.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. No lying 3 Pitch the technical puzzles attempting to solve 99.9999% of non-technical founders/co-founders get 2 out of 3 of these points wrong. I think I just really feared working for the Man.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

The opportunity when I got to pitch on stage in front of 400 angel investors was for the largest angel investor conference in the Pacific northwest called Angel Oregon, and we competed with 60 other companies. This is why we love the lean startup methodology. There’s a lot of chambers of commerce.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

I loved to compete against these companies. Martin , on May 4, 2009 at 4:00 pm Said: Naive question: How do you handle the situation when Sales is happier selling an existing product that has a smaller but already established market than a new product with a non-existent but potentially much larger market?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. We still won large customers but over time it became harder to compete.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Basically, the lesson in this guys argument is entirely non-technical. Get a grip.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? questions and answers for non-programmers. Lean project management.

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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. As I learned it, I was just agape.

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