The Seraf Compass

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It seems like more now than ever before, if you tell a distant relative that you are an angel investor, they will say “oh I’ve heard of that” rather than give you a blank stare and assume you are talking about church choir. For a variety of reasons, the mainstream business press is writing more about angel investing than ever.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

The trio have formed three SPACs, or blank-check companies. Hoffman, Pincus and Thompson have promoted a concept that they call “venture capital at scale.” ” To date, SPACs have been the conduit to reach that scale. Two of those SPACs have announced mergers with private companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

A few months later, when I saw that the cart’s parent company, Blank Street, had raised venture funding, I didn’t get it. But Blank Street claims to have cracked the code on how to make a chain of more than 65 physical coffee shops have the right metrics to attract venture capitalists. This looked like both.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I often start with a blank piece of paper & a pen and start doodling. I really need a quite space, a blank canvass, a pen or keyboard, an objective, and enough time for ideas to flow. I then took 20 blank Powerpoint pages. Many people are visual thinkers. I add words & ideas. I understand that some people do.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

We had a wide-ranging discussion which included discussions of Eric’s early career (including his failures), how he came to focus on the Lean Startup movement (at the encouragement of Steve Blank who was an investor in the company he co-founded) and what he wants to do next.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

Unfortunately, people are out there taking Skillshare classes, reading VC bloggers, and buying Steve Blank's books and taking the advice contained within them as some kind of religion--mindlessly applying them like my grandmother applies Vicks--everywhere and anywhere there seems to be a problem. Why ever read another tech blog?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Or teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford like Steve Blank. How about teaching engineering at Stanford and seeing the best & brightest before they’re even out in the wild. That’s Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate. Are you sure?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I like to think with blank pieces of paper and a pen. I walk down from my bedroom and stay at my computer un-showered and in a hat for 10 straight hours. Or I will get some good time in at a hotel just zoning out and thinking. I have my best creative break-throughs this way.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Rachel Blank has a history with hormones. Blank was tasked with growing Rory, a product line for menopausal women. But Blank left her director position at the health tech unicorn, last valued at $5 billion, to start her own company in women’s hormonal health. Blank says that Allara’s goal is all about “managing risk.”. “It’s

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” In non-tech speak, this is where your product solves the need of a customer segment well enough that many customers in that segment are willing to pay you money for your product.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 19, 2011

If you’re Martin Blank , and you need to kill the President of Paraguay, you might need to use a fork. It’s like asking an assassin whether or not he uses rifles or grenades—it really depends on the situation and what you’re trying to optimize for. might play a factor. Different tools for different jobs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

I found myself constantly filling my journal and blank pages of hotel stationery with notes, and in many cases, when I reviewed those notes weeks later, I had totally forgotten what I had written down.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Again, this doesn’t feel like it presents a game-changing investment opportunity across the board the way the web itself was a pretty blank business canvas when it started.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I love reading Eric Reis, Steve Blank, Clay Christenson, Brad Feld and others. If “all the cool kids are doing it” make sure you have strong internal logic for why you’re going to follow them. Often it’s not the best course. Experiencing the world will be a lesson in and of itself. Reading widely can also broaden your thinking.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

“But Blank Street claims to have cracked the code on how to make a chain of more than 65 physical coffee shops have the right metrics to attract venture capitalists,” writes Rebecca Szkutak.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2010

This past October I was honored to be invited by Steve Blank to speak at Stanford for their Enterprise Thought Leader (ETL) series.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 10, 2023

Plus, you’ll save $19,980 in the process Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 24, 2021

Without a sense of duration, path or outcome, this is either a dark void or a blank canvas. Understanding this seasonal context means there’s an onus on leaders to become aware of endings. Transitioning through this, we enter the phase of “the strange”. It’s time to redefine goals, but with a more humane and conscious approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

It’s the key to growing a successful business and is a theme the Steve Blank plays up a lot. I provided information for my customers to make their lives easier.&# Really understanding the business of your customer matters. I agree whole heartedly. The other money quote she gave that I loved was, “&# Totally get out of your office.&#

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

For example, if Katrina Lake, the founder of Stitch Fix, went off to start a new company, pretty much any investor would give her a blank check to do it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. Zazzle] and c) artisan products [etsy, foodzie].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Originally known as Scout , the New York startup was founded by CEO Andres Blank, CPO Chris Calmeyn and engineering directors Javier Castiarena and Santi Aimetta. Blank told me that Fetcher automates parts of recruiters’ jobs, namely finding job candidates and sending the initial outreach emails. . million in Series A funding.

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup. What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Chief Brand Officer.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 2, 2023

a special purpose acquisition company, is set to become the city-state’s first blank-check firm to acquire a target, with a proposed merger with Taiwanese live streaming platform 17Live Inc. The move is the company’s entry into the blank-check craze, which has been gaining traction in global financial markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

There I bumped into one of my favorite people to hang out with: Steve Blank (above). We wandered over to the 500Startups / Moonfruit party one block away. Every party seemed to be only one block away. He’s always a pleasure to see and always sparks interesting debates. Yes, this is what I look like at 2am.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Even though users build their profile through using preset skins, these are only suggestions — if users want to build their profiles from a blank slate and create their own categories to organize their content with, they can do that. But by design, Tagg encourages its users to grow out of their comfort zones.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Like Steve Blank, Dave McClure, Dennis Crowley, Evan Cohen, Gary Vaynerchuk, John Price, Angelo Sotira and many, many more. .” The event seems to be more focused on 6pm – 3am than it does to people sitting and watching panels. All of these people were publicly accessible and talking with just about anybody.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The combined picture that appears is one of an active market, likely accelerated by the IPOs of insurtech unicorns Lemonade and Root, Hippo’s latest megaround and Metromile’s impending public debut via a blank-check company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Steve Blank. Steve Blank is a founding faculty at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University, an adjunct professor at Stanford and a senior fellow for innovation at Columbia University. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

RTP reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission that around 63% of the 69 million ordinary shares were redeemed prior to the public trading debut, giving Joby access to $255 million out of the $690 million of cash held in trust from the blank-check firm. nyse #experiencesquare #eVTOL @NYSE pic.twitter.com/XlpxXiA1Pa.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

“At a time when global construction is accelerating to an unprecedented pace, Toggle offers a way to add capacity while saving time and cost on some of the largest types of projects,” cofounder and CEO Daniel Blank said in a statement, “We are especially grateful for our partners who are helping us to bring new tools and approaches to the fundamental (..)

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 24, 2020

If that is you, then check out the full version of the KISS Canvas, where just about all the top-priority questions for a startup have been laid out in step-by-step, fill-in-the-blank fashion… KISS Canvas (Full).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blank notes that the pandemic has contributed to an increased interest in automating difficult and expensive pieces of the construction process. The initial $8 million Series A was announced back in 2021. Japanese firm Tokyu Construction is a first-time investor in the startup, whose total raise is currently at $15 million.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

There are a few key features we believe products in this category will have: Generation tools that kill the “blank page” problem. These tools might help transform true “blank pages” (e.g., Users can also expand the canvas by inpainting in blank space around the existing video. The same will be true in prosumer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image Credits: Triple Whale Triple Whale was co-founded by AJ Orbach (CEO), Ivan Chernykh (CTO) and Maxx Blank (COO). AJ Orbach (CEO), Maxx Blank (COO) and Ivan Chernykh (CTO) “The data coming from Facebook was just a mess. And so we said, we have to build attribution,” explained Blank.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

The point is, rather than start out by starting at a blank page on Substack or an empty tweet, you should start with the end goal in mind. So, if you were actually trying to turn your podcast content into a book, it would probably take you between 2-3 podcasts to net a chapter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

This morning, investor and SPAC raconteur Chamath Palihapitiya announced two new blank-check deals involving Latch and Sunlight Financial. Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless-entry systems, has raised $152 million in private capital, according to Crunchbase.

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