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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. 17, 2009 and before Jan. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. What went wrong? It simply doesn’t work that way. Absolutely.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Angel Investors. Women’s Capital Connection: Changing The Face Of Angel Investing (Women Angel Investors). Acquisition. Debriefing.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Reply Allen Smith , on October 26, 2009 at 12:29 pm Said: The first VC were indeed from the Boston area but they predated Doriot by more than 100 years. link] Reply Family Business Feuds; The Ideal Career Path : Floriday Properties , on October 27, 2009 at 1:50 pm Said: [.] play in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco. They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. TechCrunch) [.]