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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” It’s an impressive portfolio.

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The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs

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The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. Create a members-only forum where only qualified customers (perhaps, paying customers) can post. Establish a customer advisory board. Hand pick a dozen customers who "get" your vision. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Is Your VC Founder Friendly?

Steve Blank

What startup stage do they typically invest in? Do they “get&# Customer Development ? What Startup Stage Do they Invest In? Certain VC’s like the new class of Super-Angels and small VC funds specialize in the early stage of a startup where you are searching for a business model. Lean Startups ?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere show No. 4: David Lerner and Gary Marcus

Steve Blank

He is also an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School , and an angel investor hailed as one of New York City’s top 100 early-stage investors. What’s more, as the Lean Startup revolution has gone mainstream, Dave said, it has started to change the trajectory of our economy. I’m seeing it in real time.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. VC & Startup Resources.