Angel Investor Customer Development Early Stage Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 What’s Missing Is Early Stage Capital. Here’s Part 2 of Dino’s story….
Steve Blank
JANUARY 20, 2014
When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking?
Steve Blank
JUNE 2, 2011
A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Board meetings that guide startups haven’t changed since the early 1900’s. Silicon Valley, New York). The process they use to guide their search is customer development. Victor Hugo. Here’s how.
Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups – which because of geography or size of investment typically don’t have formal boards or directors – to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e. Silicon Valley, New York). Angels In America. Here’s how.
Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups – which because of geography or size of investment typically don’t have formal boards or directors – to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e. Silicon Valley, New York). Angels In America. Here’s how.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 15, 2011
Startups now understand what they should be doing in their early formative days is search for a business model. 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.
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