Angel Investor Customer Development Silicon Valley Video 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 31, 2014
The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. It doesn’t.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
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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Steve Blank
JUNE 2, 2011
A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups that don’t have formal boards or directors (because of geography or size of investment) to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e.
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Clypd – Video Advertising (backed by Atlas, DataPoint, Boston Seed). Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred).
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 15, 2011
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. Now they can.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. 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.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 26, 2009
They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading.
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