Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. The key insight we had was that it wasn’t about raw speed ? First, by talking about solutions rather than hardware, we changed the way customers thought about graphics boards.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. combination of factors –.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. And the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Want Venture Capital Funding? Ghost Town?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Maybe It’s Me When I got to the SuperMac, our Marketing Communications group told me about our “award-winning&# retail packaging for our graphics boards. Confused because while I knew absolutely nothing about retail packaging, as a consumer I knew this box was not something I would pay attention to.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

I’ve written before about how Capital Efficiency doesn’t exist and is an oxymoron. However, there is an important corollary to the non-existence of Capital Efficiency and that is The Curse of Over Capitalization. Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

I’ve written before about how Capital Efficiency doesn’t exist and is an oxymoron. However, there is an important corollary to the non-existence of Capital Efficiency and that is The Curse of Over Capitalization. Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Strong pre-show promotion will let your customers and prospects know about your exhibit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Few people know that the song was written by a white Jewish guy from the Bronx – the author has a pretty strange story which you can read about in the Other section below.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company - [link]. Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link].

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. Venture Capital. (3).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

He actually has a new venture called SparkToro , which we’ll touch on today. But we’re going to talk a lot about his new book called, “ Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. We are going to talk about your book, but I got to ask one SEO question. It’s a treat for me.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. In the new bubble PR may be your new best friend, so invest in it. Carpe Diem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. Of course I have.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? Surely, among the tens of thousands of effective and honest consultants running about, a significant number of them are well positioned to help startups – right? One of the best things about being an entrepreneur is that there are no rules. infoChachkie. I suppose so, but I haven’t ever seen it.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The startup develops its first positioning statement and uses this to explain the company and its benefits to venture capitalists. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. No wonder the half-life of a startup VP of Sales is about nine months post first customer ship. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The bi-weekly podcasts feature interviews of entrepreneurs and silicon Valley leaders. VentureCast : Bi-weekly anecdotes on the Silicon Valley venture world. Venture Capital. (3). "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product D. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

A rule of thumb is that your space costs represent about a quarter of your total show budget. But it has to come with one of your people to talk about the product. Customer Discovery Sitting inside of your company you’ve made a whole bunch of assumptions about who your customers are and why they will buy. What do they read?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

About a minute later I did a double-take as it hit me what I had just read. (I’ll No one in the Army Signal Corps knew much about computers. (To It was priced at $22,000 – equivalent to about $140,000 in 2009 dollars. That’s a pretty long way from a company that admitted it knew nothing about computers.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I attended the 13th Silicon Valley Annual VC/Entrepreneur luncheon organized by NVCA. The guest speaker was a well known and highly successful Silicon Valley veteran: Tony Zingale, President and CEO of Mercury Interactive. Venture Capital. (3). Saturday, December 16, 2006. Post a Comment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. If you haven’t read my post about that, you should. I spoke at length about the narrative here. Why buy me?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. The other couples laughed for about half a second expecting my friend’s wife to do so as well. Or is it just someones end of innocence ?

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. Companies in the entertainment business around the world knew who we were, and were interested in meeting us, if only to see what the hype was about.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

We need your decision now because we are about to spend $50,000 on new collateral.” I wanted to know some simple and not so simple things about our customers. What was the most important attribute about our graphics cards and monitors that made them buy it? Do they know anything about us? What did they think we stood for?

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Most of my 25 year career has been in California; about half of those in Silicon Valley. In every case these other places aspire to be a self sustaining baby Silicon Valley of their own – Silicon Alley, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Coast. Talk about scalability! That has all changed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! This map reveals exactly where Silicon Valley gets its talent | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/1kLpblq. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. There are different ways to go about finding a problem worth solving. Create your minimum viable product.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Only in Silicon Valley could we have got funded with this idea, and not surprisingly, it was our technology that had the VC’s confused. As we were about to find out, if video game players wanted a cinematic experience, they went to the movies, they didn’t buy a video game. Fancy video narratives and plots were not video games.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! based venture capital investors, by deal stage. Silicon Valley Needs to Lose the Arrogance or Risk Destruction | Wired Opinion - crowdspring.co/1g2t41F.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Five Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital, by Rachel Chalmers | Model View Culture - crowdspring.co/1lIlpYH. How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good interview with @mike_samson about biz w/ friends – [link]. Love this post and agree 100% about need to promote intense debate among teams - [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Dear Silicon Valley, Ads Are the Hard Part | Digiday – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. 5 Hiring Mistakes That Can Crush Your Company’s Culture – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Clueless about the chess game being played in Washington, I was just a minion in a corporate halfway house in between my military career and entrepreneurship. The concepts were so radically different that I spent weeks dreaming about the system theory and waking up with headaches. All You Can Read Without a Library Card It was 1978.

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