Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

75 years ago, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) helped kickstart innovation in Silicon Valley with a series of grants to Fred Terman , Dean of Stanford’s Engineering school. The Center combines six unique strengths of Stanford and its location in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley’s deep technology ecosystem.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

We don’t really talk about money in Silicon Valley. The tech sector is in a privileged position – can our generosity match our accomplishments? .” The person seated across the table from me went through a series of facial microexpressions as I said this — surprise, disgust, analysis and finally, calm.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Silicon Valley – a Corporate Innovation Candy Store. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup. Now the model is to seed many good teams with a smaller amount, and find out which ones can execute.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2023

The simple answer is that with all the staging of TV lights and billionaire investors, it’s nothing like Silicon Valley. In a more general sense, find out as much as you can about every group and person you address, and tune your pitch ahead of time to match. There is no substitute for knowing your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I learned this the hard way, when I left IBM a few years ago to share what I had learned with the exciting world of startups in Silicon Valley. Promote yourself with a title to match your expertise. Startups need outside experts who can do the work, as well as relate to the challenges of a new business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

So here is a rational hedge strategy I recommend, and see playing out every day in Silicon Valley and other startup hubs. There are many networking groups on FaceBook, LinkedIn, and others social media sites, which can help you increase your odds of finding a match early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start. This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital. New England Investment Network.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice. He runs H4X Labs.

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The Next Web

JULY 14, 2018

The one is about some plumber jabbing away at their phone, while the other is about satisfying the algorithms of a company in Silicon Valley. To the layman UX and SEO (if they even understand what they mean) sound like two entirely unrelated things. But we know better. At its core they’re down to the same thing.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Later I realized six salespeople without revenue to match was a proxy for an out of control burn rate that now had the boards serious attention. they’re furthest from the Silicon Valley corporate office and any oversight.). Sales’ is on the hook for making the numbers and things aren’t looking good. Six is a Proxy for Burn Rate.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. cities (outside of Silicon Valley and the East Coast), to build your startup.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war. Yet while the U.S.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding. He stressed that your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding: One thing that we learned very early on was, have a plan for fund-raising. … Every time I go to Silicon Valley I’m like, “Oh, this place is great.”

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

After investing in 36 lobbyists to win this bill — Uber and Lyft got basically everything they wanted and both Silicon Valley giants turned their apps back on in Austin a few hours later. The Silicon Valley giants have been able to come back into a market they abandoned with very little effort.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

He’s as good as any startup CEO in Silicon Valley. You couldn’t be more wrong. The Energy Storage division is acting like a startup, and Prescott Logan its General Manager, has lived up to the charter. The good news/bad news is that you’ll spend ½ your time on airplanes listening to customers.).

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 8, 2022

I do feel lucky to have been raised in Silicon Valley where it was clear to everyone that this was a very valid and potentially lucrative career choice. I was a very social kid (constantly on email/AIM or corded phone) who lived on ranch without many friends in walking distance so this was meaningful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup. Now the model is to seed many good teams with a smaller amount, and find out which ones can execute.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The next thing you need to do is match your sales team with your market type. I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley. Some say we were the first PCM in the valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Reading the articles and the comments is probably worth it, but I personally think that the NY Times is overstating the advantage of being in Silicon Valley with a couple of exceptions. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

First, most Silicon Valley startups were (and primarily still are) technology-driven. There’s equally compelling evidence from IDEO the Stanford D-School and the Biodesign Innovation Process that Design Thinking works great in finding customer needs and building products to match them. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The rest of the organization (product development, marketing, support) has been burning cash, all according to plan, expecting Sales to make its numbers. Order Here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2020

The simple answer is that with all the staging of TV lights and billionaire investors, it’s nothing like Silicon Valley. In a more general sense, find out as much as you can about every group and person you address, and tune your pitch ahead of time to match. There is no substitute for knowing your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

So here is a rational hedge strategy I recommend, and see playing out every day in Silicon Valley and other startup hubs. There are many networking groups on FaceBook, LinkedIn, and others social media sites, which can help you increase your odds of finding a match early.

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David Cohen

MAY 17, 2013

To facilitate a productive match between mentors and participants, candidate selection will focus on technology-oriented companies and teams. Patriot Boot Camp 2013 is made possible by our generous sponsors: SoftLayer , Kauffman FastTrac , Slice of Lime , PivotDesk , Silicon Valley Bank , SendGrid , and George Washington University.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Tim can match up with any Silicon Valley product manager and has been doing the role for global software businesses for 20 years. The problem is – the perfect guy for the job was head of European Marketing for Salesforce.com and Saleforce has continued to go from strength to strength. Luckily we had history together.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice. He runs H4X Labs.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

5) The customer’s needs don’t match your long term direction. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. While I completely agree with this notion, the signals might be more important (when you might fire them): 1) You don’t have a bi-directional (respectful) relationship. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Marc Andreessen also covered the age topic here: [link] steve Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Here are three pieces of advice that are tossed around Silicon Valley as if they are gospel, but they are really Startup Myths. I don’t know exactly when it happened but at some point, Silicon Valley became obsessed with the word billion. Myth #1: Build a Billion Dollar Company.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Technology to Weapons to Doctrine.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. As we got to know each other, I pretty quickly realized that I had met my match, someone with even more curiosity, creativity and a wry sense of humor. If possible, it seemed like his excitement for what he was doing matched mine.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Team final presentations The team’s final lessons learned presentations were pretty extraordinary, only matched by their post-class comments. Take a look below. Team Wicked Araucania Click here if you can’t see the Araucania presentation. Team Accelerate Basque Click here if you can’t see the Accelerate Basque presentation.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2019

Last month, Amy and I matched all of the Colorado first time DonorsChoose.org projects. We still have plenty of matching dollars out there, so we’ll continue to run this match for a while. This match will continue until the dollars are used up.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Generate end user demand (to match our revenue goals) Drive that demand into our sales channels Value price our products to achieve our revenue and margin goals (create high-value) Educate our sales channel(s) Help engineering understand customer needs That was it. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Marketing is often treated as a bad word in Silicon Valley. It’s a “reverse karaoke” app that listens to what you sing and automatically composes music to match. She previously served as the Chief Product Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Smule , where she remains an advisor to the Board of Directors.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

But she suspected that being a young African-American woman prevented her qualifications spring boarding her into a suitable Silicon Valley job. So she launched job matching tool Blendoor to remove subconscious bias from recruiters’ hiring processes.

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