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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning.

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Personalized Search

BeyondVC

The business model was to be an “arms merchant” to all of the major search engines like AOL and Yahoo. As Jim Pitkow, co-founder of Outride says in a San Jose Mercury News article : “That’s good because the search engine doesn’t have to try hard to infer anything from the user’s behavior.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: StrongSalt

Austin Startup

Ed Yu , CEO and co-founder of StrongSalt The Forrest Four-Cast: February 3, 2020 Is it possible for companies to protect their customers with data privacy that complies with regulations and is easy for developers to use? StrongSalt Co-Founder and CEO Ed Yu says yes it is. “Encryption sucks and we fix that.”?—?

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Personalized Search

BeyondVC

The business model was to be an “arms merchant” to all of the major search engines like AOL and Yahoo. As Jim Pitkow, co-founder of Outride says in a San Jose Mercury News article : “That’s good because the search engine doesn’t have to try hard to infer anything from the user’s behavior.

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ProfessorVC: Can you start a company on $10K?

Professor VC

We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. Also, if it turns out he neglected his girlfriend too much while starting up the company, hell certainly have the opportunity to meet plenty of co-eds as he hands out flyers for the site on campus. Steve Bennet.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan.