Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Jonathan Swift. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Jonathan Swift. Here’s how.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Of course, bringing startups (whether prospective or existing portfolio companies) closer to operating divisions has business and customer development benefits. Access to potential buyers and partners is, after all, one of the main attractions why startups seek investment from corporate venture funds. Are they good sales people?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. The process, which Blank detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany," uses customer feedback to refine and improve a product before scaling a business. Here's how.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

If you were a “with it” VC you needed to have a “Content&# or “Multimedia&# company in your portfolio to impress your limited partners – educational software companies, game companies, or anything that could be described as content and/or Multimedia. Not all VCs are equal.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Some of the old-line venture firms have changed their strategy, but some are still locked into last decade’s model while the partners are living off of their management fees and go through cargo cult like rituals.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.

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