K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). The product worked.

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Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). What business schools can provide is an opportunity to learn a set of skills that can be helpful on the entrepreneurial journey.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). What business schools can provide is an opportunity to learn a set of skills that can be helpful on the entrepreneurial journey.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I wish I had foreseen that within a year of publishing The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Achieve Radically Successful Businesses , many large organizations, including such monsters as the United States Federal government (!) Make no mistake, Brant and Patrick have been here since the beginning.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator. In Italy, if you bankrupt your business, you lose your driving privileges until you get a job and pay off all of the creditors.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first part was railing against the consequences of regulatory capture on innovation and a second part, about the consequences of premature government regulation of AI and why the incumbents are all for it. He recently gave a talk at the All-In Summit that was really two talks in one. In the U.S. Bill Gurley’s point.)

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

All were too young to have experienced the internet boom of the late 1990s, and I had deja vu listening to them — remembering business school conferences at Kellogg on “Digital Technology” in 1998. I smiled when some asked if they were too late to enter the sector.

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