2000 Customer Development Government Startup 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 3, 2016
In a startup, your ideas turn into reality really, really fast. A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. In a startup, you don’t fight the system; you are the system. Lots of people have visions. Most are hallucinations. You can scale much better.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 3, 2016
In a startup, your ideas turn into reality really, really fast. A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. In a startup, you don’t fight the system; you are the system. Lots of people have visions. Most are hallucinations. You can scale much better.
Steve Blank
MAY 5, 2016
The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. They say things like “There’s a lot of government money and we don’t want to deal with that.” We run the class like a startup.
Steve Blank
MAY 5, 2016
The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. They say things like “There’s a lot of government money and we don’t want to deal with that.” We run the class like a startup.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Dec 26, 2009).
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