Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Seed Funding (Innofund).
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Seed Funding (Innofund).
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.
Steve Blank
JUNE 29, 2009
You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&#
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls).
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. In today’s language of Customer Development , RIM positioned the Blackberry as a segment of an existing market – pager users who needed two-way communication. Filed under: Customer Development , Market Types.
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