Distribution Liquidity Event Technology 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 27, 2018
As a technology buff, I’m all too sensitive to the common investor complaint that technical people often end up selling yet another “solution looking for a problem,” because they are so impressed with their technology. Your solution may include leading technology, but if available to competitors, the lead won’t last.
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Steve Blank
JULY 19, 2010
The fallacy is believing that a founders value is evenly distributed over four years. Where’s My Liquidity Event. The goal of your business model can be revenue, or profits, or users, or click-throughs (or even just to get the technology into production) – whatever the founders and their investors have agreed upon.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 7, 2015
In every case, the relevant pitch needs to start by highlighting a real customer problem, then outlining a new solution, with all the features and disruptive technology. Your solution may be a technological marvel, but if it is vulnerable to competitors, potential investors will likely walk away.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
So, I wrote into the final distribution instructions a surprise five figure bonus for each of the five executives. Those that pay off handsomely (congratulations if so), those marginal exits that selvage technology, brand and jobs – better than nothing. Each was surprised, pleased and effusive. Consider the kinds of exits.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Startups that win in the bubble will be those that get wide adoption (using freemium, viral growth, low costs, etc) and massive distribution (i.e. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 3, 2013
He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. Internationalization of Technology.
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