Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. When companies want to innovate a new business model (vs.

Startup 331

Startup Business Model Lean Russia 331

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. A handful of large corporations actively invest in VC funds themselves. The main ones include: Fund of Funds (FoFs).

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. A handful of large corporations actively invest in VC funds themselves. The main ones include: Fund of Funds (FoFs).

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248