Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. I’m sure many of you have heard his name. President Bieto, Dean Sauquet, members of the faculty, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen….Thank Now look around.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed. There are too many deals.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. MK : Initial investments are typically around $400,000 to $500,000, typically part of a Pre-Seed round of financing.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%). ARCH Venture Fund V (2000): 41% (11%). Finance jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. It was early 2000. Why you shouldn’t stack too many brand names into a round. That’s fine. What I caution entrepreneurs from doing is raising money at significantly ABOVE market valuations. I raised my A round at a $31.5

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Kyle retained the right to name the third board member. Start-up | Mondays.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc. This observation is also mirrored by the higher spend in IT budgets across most industries.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. So, you know, Brian did not need someone to run finance in it cuz he liked finance in it. I knew what to do. Let's just crank through this.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

More than 2000 years after the first coin was minted in ancient Asia Minor, the world of dollar bills, central banks and the traditional banking system is being disrupted by cryptocurrencies – and there’s way more to this new world than just Bitcoin.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Copyright © 2000 inc.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 25, 2024

2000 through 3000. She's going to finance it and take her family on a really fabulous cruise. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. So it's certainly been a wake up for me. The first 1000, right? powered by

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. The Funding Problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They made great introductions, they helped you get financed, the put in more money themselves, they helped you strategically and they helped you with your exit. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. One small hack – go to LinkedIn and do a search for the company name. For some reason most entrepreneurs do.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So when you take a look at the major causes and decrease in firm value, and once again, I'm talking fortune 2000 firms, but I think it attracts to smaller businesses too. Well, we spend upwards of 90% of our brain cycles and companies focusing on finances and operations, right? You know, the question is, you know, what are those?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

” And that turned into, at its culmination, the $2000 course kind of paradigm. Her background is finance. Danny Iny: I think that $2000 price point, which is a little bit iconic in some markets, I think it’s going to start falling away because $2000 is just too much to charge for information.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Nobody really talks about this.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox , the Israeli-American startup developing optimization software for customer service centers, announced it has raised $18 million in financing from a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP). Founded in 2000, Clickfox was started by Tal Cohen and Nissim Harel.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2012

Or James Altucher , who has lunches with people like Stephen Dubner (Freakonomics), writes like Penelope Trunk , appears on CNBC to talk finance, and manages to be funny and poignant and inspirational even while writing daily. Of course they all do deserve to be alive, and deserve their success. It’s a milestone by convention only.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Without naming the name of the companies, I clearly made two investments convinced of the product and that people would love it. Ultimately, money ran out again and this fund decided not to participate in a further financing round. In Germany alone, there was something like 85 active funds in 2000.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

So I fly to Queenstown, Raj and I meet with the guy (I keep calling him “the guy” because I can’t remember his name, or maybe I blocked it out of my mind because of what happens next…let’s call him Fred for the rest of the story), and I heda back to the States after a week with a signed contract to build eQueenstown.com for $65,000.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked into an organization, they’ve got 2000 names of people that have bought products from and they’ve never sent him a thing. Two weeks is just criminal, that’s a dead lead. John Jantsch: Another one that I see is just you email us. Louis Gudema: Yeah.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 26, 2017

Yesterday, the NASDAQ crossed the 6,000 mark, its first breakthrough "round number" since 2000 when the widely followed technology index reached 5,000 for the first time. Looking at these famous names and these astronomical numbers, our first thought often can be great for them , but what does it have to do with me and my business ?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Nobody really talks about this.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. These are outdated ways to manage your business finances and won’t help you maximize profits.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. In contrast, in 2000 Handspring entered an Existing Market. (“ Disruptive ” and “sustaining” innovations, eloquently described by Clayton Christensen , are another way to describe new and existing Market Types.) End result? It was a new product.

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David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2000, LPs invested $104b into 638 funds, but by 2003, LPs’ commitment rate had dropped to just $11b into 161 funds. Most Mosteiro, a hedge fund investor, argues, “the psychology of Momentum is not nearly as reliable as Value – especially in the long run, which is the name of the VC game.”.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. These are outdated ways to manage your business finances and won’t help you maximize profits.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. These are outdated ways to manage your business finances and won’t help you maximize profits.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MAY 24, 2010

From the piece : Family suppoert allowed Vanderbilt University fraternity brothers David Muzzo and Cameron Chalmers in 2000 to cofound Study Island, an educational software company. Since then, the company changed its name to Archipelago Learning, went public and did $55 million in revenue last year.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

In 2009, Barry was a category winner of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a winner of Crain’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was included on Treasury & Risk’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance. He currently holds NASD Series 7, Series 24, and Series 63 licenses. the 1990s.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I named my lifestyle brand ‘Urban Spinster’ because I am an African-American woman who is single, never married over age 30.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Dallas (North) is the ninth largest city and was recently named the number one commercial real estate market in the US. In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco.

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