Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

Turns out commerce and advertising are kinda different businesses actually. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Silly stuff like this. That’s why we talk about Amazon as an internet company but we don’t refer to LL Bean as an internet company. link] leehower.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. Just as Erin mentions above -- replace content with games -- the same dynamics are at work in the advertising world. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising. And Twitter CRO Adam Bain is focused primarily on growing this advertising base. Twitter’s data is valuable primarily for advertising. The most valuable users for advertisers are the people that use the service the most as a utility.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The Advertising business is growing slower (69% YoY in 2011) than the whole company and if you dive in to the quarterly growth rates, you can see that it’s fairly lumpy.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles. Read More ».

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes “First they ignore you. Posted at 12:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0) | Reblog (1) 05/24/2010 Step 2 (as opposed to version 1.1)

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. At the end of the day, the actionable insights that come from various forms of data are capitalized through existing business models like commerce, advertising, and to a lesser extent premium services.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

I was in a board meeting for a seed stage company recently and a successful GP at a larger fund said “you know it when you see it” which is true. And there are some common precepts seed stage companies can follow. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. TopSchool, Inc. Clementine Arts markets the first full line of natural art supplies for children.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. TopSchool, Inc. Clementine Arts markets the first full line of natural art supplies for children.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups. Launch Date: 2010. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. Crunchbase. Company: AngelList.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Thanks Phil Gainley Reply Margit Niemelä , on August 16, 2010 at 6:29 am said: Steve, wonderful job!

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Seed Stage Valuation Guide. advertising. contextual advertising. Useful blogs and links for startups. Best of Y-Combinator Startup Advice. Best of Y- Combinator Startup Advice. Raising Venture Capital. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. VC Experts. Founder Equity Issues. Fred Wilson Advice and spreadsheet. Ad networks.

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