The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. Filed under: Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Customer Development Technology Venture Capital MORE >>

interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. 26:44 Too much capital is not good. 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. 42:20 Did agile development influence you? This Week in Venture Capital” This week was no exception. Eric is so damn good. MORE >>

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of  EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with  Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Venture Capital. The country needs to build a deeper Venture Capital industry. MORE >>

Mark Suster wrote a post about boards of directors last week in which he coined the phrase "the agile board." They are agile boards who add significant value. Like Mark, I prefer the agile board and I think an active and engaged board ultimately works out much better for the entrepreneur and the company he or she is building. MORE >>

The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. The class will be a version of the Lean LaunchPad class we developed in the  Stanford Technology Ventures Program , (the entrepreneurship center at Stanford’s School of Engineering). Until today. MORE >>