The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

We have the coolest angel investors in the world, but still our seed funding round (which was not even astronomically big) took us about six months to arrange. Most of this time was wasted on going back and forth between our lawyer and investor and discussing all kind of legal matters involving highly unlikely scenarios.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. The course does not examine financing options or the composition of founding teams. I also frequently see the reverse.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Investment Bankers 167

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Managewith.us - Collaborative Task Manager Mavenlink - manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning Misc Office Help Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

Software Review 110

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner).

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts. Prominent investors including Mark Suster and Seth Levine weighed in (I highly recommend reading their posts). Developer. angel investing tips. Lessons at the end.). An inauspicious birth. It sounds like shareware."

Startup 191

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. And the explosion of private Angel firms continues to fuel this new ecosystem. Here’s why. The Golden Age for Entrepreneurs and VC’s.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. Finance, IT, Legal). Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. And Iridium would do this without building a single cell tower.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

Silicon Valley 163

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 163

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. If you’re in a technology cluster like Silicon Valley you may be able to attract ad hoc advice from experienced investors. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. If you’re in a technology cluster like Silicon Valley you may be able to attract ad hoc advice from experienced investors. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 5: Get financed. You could also go for a larger sum of capital right from the start by pitching an angel investor or a venture capitalist for funding. In fact, when you consider the fact that VCs finance just one or two ventures out of every 100 pitches they see, you might be better off bootstrapping it to begin with.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Fenwick & West Seed Investment Standard Forms, used by most angels. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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www.instigatorblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The more that those first employees feel like founders in terms of their ownership, emotional attachment, responsibility and overall understanding of the startup process (including financing , running day-to-day activities, etc.) the better the startup will be. I do believe that early employees should trade salary for equity.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 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. As there's no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees.

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www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. Once funding takes place, the angels or VCs will want a seat at the table. So even a startup with little to no financing, made up of guys in their 20s can put together a group of advisers to help out.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Corporate Finance One of the ironies in Silicon Valley is that the two companies which gave birth to its entire semiconductor industry weren’t funded by venture capital. Stanford professors were the first angels investors. [.] 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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

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. The first limited partnership that lasted for a while was formed by Davis and Rock in 1961.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. As a tech co-founder, I tend to approach getting involved in new ventures now very much as an angel investor would, and ask the following set of questions: 1.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Mark Suster , Venture Capitalist, Angel investor & 3 votes by Matthew Carroll , Anon User and Ram Vijapurapu Already answered this one over at Startups: What would the ideal web technology start-up team be composed of?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. Do you know of any VC or angel investors that are interested in targeting the Hispanic Market? investors like great companies, that’s really the filter. That’s how I got my first 10-50 customers. How should I approach an angel investor?

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