2010 Bootstrapping Business Plan Customer Development 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Entrepreneurs put together their funding presentation by extracting the key ideas from their business plan, putting them on PowerPoint/Keynote and pitching the company – until they get funded or exhausted.
Steve Blank
MAY 26, 2009
All teams raised their hands and screamed: we hundreds of angels and dozens of VCs, all of them say they will only fund deals with prototypes, beta customers, first revenue and executive teams all in place, and they say it will be 2 years from now because their coffers are out of cash and LPs in default. Bootstrap for years!
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SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 22, 2009
As often happens in a startup, we confused our own vision and passion with the passion of our potential customers. What did the company do when we heard customer input that contradicted our business plan and assumptions? Reply Does the Lean Startup revolutionize bootstrapped marketing? More in the next post.
market-by-numbers.com
DECEMBER 7, 2009
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