Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Diversity Officer.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2016

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. ” Lean Business Planning: Get What You Want From Your Business. Why David Rose recommends it: “This guide takes the lean theories and shows you how to put them into practice.”. B y Eric Ries. B y Tim Berry.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2016

500 CEO, an angel investor, and a serial entrepreneur. He’s perhaps best known for having founded Gust —a website that connects startups with investors—but he’s also been instrumental in a number of other ventures, including Space Angels Network, Singularity University, New York Angels, and Rose Tech Ventures.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Rather than thinking of a business plan as a hefty document that you’ll only use once (perhaps to obtain a loan from a bank), think of it as tool to manage how your business grows and achieves its goals. In fact, the business plan does not have to be a formal document at all if you don’t need to present your plan to outsiders.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

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. An angel investor or VC can multiply their reach and/or depth. 4) Geography.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

A good business plan example will have all the elements your bank or angel investor (or venture capitalist) will expect to see when you ask them for funds. An Italian restaurant plan will still show you the layout and structure of the document. It really doesn’t matter if it’s an exact match in this case.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. In this section, you really just want to document how your business will make money. Schedule.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2017

Your initial business plan doesn’t have to be long; the idea is to create a living document that will give you some idea of where you are going, and allow you to track your outcomes against your initial assumptions. Because once you run out of money, you run out of money.”. Or, you can check out our library of sample business plans.

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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. We Ran the Experiment.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market. It should remain a ‘live’ document as you progress and as you grow. You can do it even if you start from home.

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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. One tweet read, “well, if HBS is investing in the lean startup we know it has jumped the shark.” The class debuts in a few weeks.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Teams document each and every customer interaction in a Discovery Narrative. Those days are over.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Four books helped me out a lot over the last few years: Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, Running Lean by Ash Maurya, The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris and Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. With our first clients, we needed legal documents again to describe terms and conditions. You’re not alone.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Other investors are using Trello , Basecamp , and Monday for making sure that everyone at the firm knows one anothers’ long-term OKRs and short-term projects.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Jeff’s presentation is from the point of a view of “What Investors Want” (see resources here ) while Mar’s takes it from a founder trying to figure out the funding landscape. And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. At the high-end pre-seed angel funds might invest.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But angel investor Tim Ferriss found that things did not fall apart when he removed himself as a bottleneck – in fact, everyday business went on and ignored the fact that the CEO had stepped away. Google Drive , Github and Dropbox are reliable tools that we use for coding and for document management.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

It is not a 75-page document, that takes months and months to put together. You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is not about some static, 75-page document. It is lean. Why do I talk about it as being a process, and lean.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve pitched in taxi cabs, I’ve pitched on street corners, in board rooms, on stage in front of 400 angel investors. The opportunity when I got to pitch on stage in front of 400 angel investors was for the largest angel investor conference in the Pacific northwest called Angel Oregon, and we competed with 60 other companies.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

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? How should I approach an angel investor?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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 – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Otherwise, for those yet-another-facebook-type social web apps, just hire competent programmers and give them salary and perks that normal professionals expect, and not hope that their compulsion covers for your managerial incompetence and angel investor micromanaging idiocy. Fred Bosick. March 26, 2011 at 3:03 pm. [.]

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

For modifications, please edit the original document here. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Scanning / Document Management. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. Codeacademy. SW Courses.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. On November 28, 2012. Source: The Next Web ]. -

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