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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.

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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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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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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures

Steve Blank

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. The process they use to guide their search is customer development. Yet even with all these tools, early stage startups still need to physically meet with advisors and investors. Or watch the video here.

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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. Clypd – Video Advertising (backed by Atlas, DataPoint, Boston Seed). Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). Great for recent grads or career switchers.

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Reinventing the Startup Board Meeting: Part 2

ReadWriteStart

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.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

Dan Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Level Therapy , which provides access to psychotherapists through video, voice, and text. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. (And download any of the past shows here.). Clips from their interviews are below. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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