Remove Angel Investor Remove Customer Development Remove Lean Remove RSS
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage. Search: RSS Feed.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Women 2.0 ยป FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Angel Investors. Women’s Capital Connection: Changing The Face Of Angel Investing (Women Angel Investors). Subscribe via RSS.

article thumbnail

The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of โ€œRisk 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!

article thumbnail

The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of โ€œRisk Capital.

Steve Blank

Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves โ€œThe Groupโ€ started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco. More on this in the next post. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

article thumbnail

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Do you know of any VC or angel investors that are interested in targeting the Hispanic Market? Thatโ€™s how I got my first 10-50 customers.

article thumbnail

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

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 – โ€œNice and leanโ€ and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.