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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 This experience has provided me a whole new set of pattern matching filters as an investor.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. And as good as the Australian angel investors have been, there still is dearth of serious follow-on funding in Australia. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. It’s because the startups are doing something very new that make them “Lean&# : These startups embrace customer and agile development that Eric Ries has been evangelizing. Lean Angels.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Gridco Systems – Power Distribution Systems (backed by General Catalyst and Northbridge). Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). Great for recent grads or career switchers.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.