I’ve been traveling – New York/Cairo/Tel Aviv – for the last three weeks. Posts will resume in July.
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Is Your VC Founder Friendly?
Posted on June 15, 2010 by steveblank
The role of a founding CEO in a startup searching for a business model is radically different than a CEO building and growing a company. Some VC’s get it, others may not. So if you’re the founder of a startup, you may want to consider who you take money from. Is Your VC Founder Friendly? [...]
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You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur
Posted on June 10, 2010 by steveblank
Who is an entrepreneur really? It turns out that there are four distinct types of entrepreneurial organizations; small businesses, scalable startups, large companies and social entrepreneurs. They all engage in entrepreneurship. Yet entrepreneurs in one class think that the others aren’t the “real” entrepreneurs. This post looks at the differences and similarities and explains why [...]
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When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It
Posted on June 7, 2010 by steveblank
It is a rare company that realizes it is time to fire the CEO when the financials are good but the business is fundamentally heading for a cliff. For me, I learned this lesson first hand. I had joined the board of a $200million public company that 15 years earlier had single-handily created an industry. [...]
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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise
Posted on June 3, 2010 by steveblank
It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one that is most responsive to change. Charles Darwin Companies have a fairly predictable life cycle. They start with an innovation, search for a repeatable business model, build the infrastructure for a company, then grow by efficiently executing the model. Over [...]
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