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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. & Raising Capital Pitch Perfect 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor Raising Money Using Customer Development Due Diligence Checklist Term Sheet Archives (from Brad [.]

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Stanford professors were the first angels investors. [.] the capital infrastructure in the valley is the key – but remember that in the beginning there was no venture capital, and the early valley prospered without it. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) So for every dollar that a fund invested, it would have four dollars to invest.

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.