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From Idea To Execution: Building An Efficient Workflow For Your New Venture

The Startup Magazine

Whether it’s managing your supply chain or automating customer service, look for ways to optimise every aspect of your operations. PDF to Word conversion tools can be a lifesaver for managing documents efficiently. It’s not just about a logo or a tagline; it’s the experience you promise your customers.

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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

While the posts were theory I was a bit surprised when John Selep , an early-stage investor, approached me and said he was actually using the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) in practice. Entrepreneurs should always communicate their business’ very latest stage of customer development as part of their investor presentation.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.

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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures

Steve Blank

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. The process they use to guide their search is customer development. Yet even with all these tools, early stage startups still need to physically meet with advisors and investors. Victor Hugo. 4) Geography.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere show No. 4: David Lerner and Gary Marcus

Steve Blank

David Lerner is an entrepreneur, angel investor and director of entrepreneurship at Columbia University. He is also an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School , and an angel investor hailed as one of New York City’s top 100 early-stage investors. It’s a conversation.

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Lean Impact Webcast on Tuesday

Startup Lessons Learned

It will feature a conversation that gets into the details of how non-profit and mission-driven organizations are making use of Lean Startup methods to get closer to their goals, faster. And "Lean Impact" offers a reference point for people to start that conversation—there is real power in naming.

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Reinventing the Startup Board Meeting: Part 2

ReadWriteStart

The process they use to guide that search is "Customer Development" ; and to track their progress startups now have a scorecard to document their week-by-week changes – the business model canvas. Yet even with all these tools, early stage startups still need to physically meet with advisors and investors.