Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. That requires building a company using Agile and Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 1991-2000. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010. New, agile and adroit venture firms with new business models have emerged to deal with the reality that 1) web 2.0 They’ve created virtual IPO’s for founders and employees via late-stage private financing.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management.

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