Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. Every time another execution process is added, corporate innovation dies a little more.

Private Equity 326

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Electron-based Venture Capital. Here’s why. They build a minimum feature set.

Lean 260

Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 260

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? At a glance, you can see how startup capital needs differ by markets, how distribution channels and demand creation activities differ by market, and even how VC’s assess risk and reward by market. Time to Market – How long?

Vertical 123

Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 123

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Just make sure you outline the T&C in black and white in your contract and try to distribute your work among multiple vendors/teams for e.g. Core Backend to one, UI to other and marketing consultation to yet another. Look out for teams/vendors who work on Agile, so that you are flexible with your requirements.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. free, distributed source code control management system. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile eLearning.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53