Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. Since I wasn’t an engineer, my contribution was around the team-building and fund raising. I was an idiot.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

The Adventure of a Lifetime. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

ethics statement bio e-mail RSS. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days. venture capitalists put $8.1 venture capitalists put $8.1 Venture capitalists were particularly aggressive on early-stage investments in the second quarter. Tagged with: CB Insights, funding , VC , venture capital.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. (My Yet when I talked to my venture capital friends, they said, “Well, that’s just how startups work. My mother kept asking if they were going to make me pay the money back. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Families gather from across the country to spend time with each other and feast on a traditional turkey dinner. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. He has spent a lot of time thinking about what users really want to do to solve information overload problems. Good design is winning all over the web--at sites like Mint, Twitter,and Quora.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2015

Matt learned the “client service” approach to venture capital or startups by working at CAA and credits Richard Lovett with having taught Matt the importance of client service. As always, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, Soundcloud and podcast RSS feed. You can follow me there as well.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." " "Hit it."

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I even had time to find a girlfriend who was a contractor to the company. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&#

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Medium – Venture Capital
. RSS feeds for VC blogs
, subscribed to via Feedly. RSS feeds for founder blogs, subscribed to via Feedly. Here’s their approach: Sites to Discover Content from VCs:
. Nuzzel.com
. Venturenews.co
. Featured posts in CrunchBase Daily , StrictlyVC , and Dan Primack’s Term Sheet
.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Raising Venture Capital. Subscribe to my RSS Feed. Raising Venture Capital (12). This Week in Venture Capital (14). Start-up Advice. Angel Topics. Entrepreneur DNA. Sales & Marketing. Negotiations. Both Sides of the Table. Entrepreneur turned VC. He focuses on early-stage technology companies.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. Generally speaking, the European venture capital community is more likely to commit larger investments in more mature companies. Give it some thought!

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

. “We’ve been seeing at least one post per week on TheFunded concerning mentor compensation”, said Adeo Ressi, the founder of both Founder Institute and TheFunded.com (a site focused on revealing the inside truths of the Venture Capital world). Dreamworks is making the Need for Speed movie. About & Staff.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Venture capital. At the end of the incubation period, Microsoft hopes to help the companies find their first round of venture funding through its venture capital partners — or perhaps acquire them itself. MobileBeat. Singularity University. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

5/ Underlying RSS Technology Not Optimal For 21st Century Media. I have fielded many startup pitches for podcast-related startups and basically said “no” to each one. Again, I hope to be proven wrong — I could’ve invested in Gimlet and today I wish I had. I’d love to hear more opinions on this.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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