View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. And do your customer development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. The emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital.

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