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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric.

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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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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It’s like arguing against vertical software. Otherwise, for those yet-another-facebook-type social web apps, just hire competent programmers and give them salary and perks that normal professionals expect, and not hope that their compulsion covers for your managerial incompetence and angel investor micromanaging idiocy.

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