Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Here’s the punchline: if you run your company as if you have closed a VC equity financing round even though you actually closed a convertible debt round, you’ll be in much better shape when it comes time to raise your Series A financing. Investors are dismayed that there are no real customers yet.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. What’s been missing for everyone is: a common language for investors to communicate objectives to startups.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Places to Hang.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Micro-VC: The Artist Formerly Known as “Super Angel” The “Micro-VC” funds (also known by the misnomer “Super Angel funds”), started as far back as the mid-90s with Ron Conway and earlier incarnations of his SV Angel fund. They are operators, through and through.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2022

For instance, putting your physical address on the contact page is a good way to rank in search engine results when someone conducts a regional search. Friends and family are a common source of financing too. If you’re in more of a startup environment, angel investors and venture capitalists may be your best option.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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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. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. Nicola Corzine of the Band of Angels Acorn Fund discusses this at length in our interview with her.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. Nicola Corzine of the Band of Angels Acorn Fund discusses this at length in our interview with her.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. Finance, IT, Legal). In fact, most investors “require” that you already have some investment from friends and family before they will even step up to the plate. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. call to arms. Absolutely.

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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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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. I believe that picking up programming should be to acquaint yourself with the particular challenges of engineering.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Find partners or investors. You know a lot about marketing or finance or… whatever. Passive income can be handy for bolstering your bottom line and an important safety net for lean seasons. Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists. Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization. Find the right help.

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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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., – angel investor networks ( AngelList , FundersClub , OurCrowd , Republic *, SeedInvest ). .

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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? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. Then launch.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Stanford and MIT were building on the technology breakthroughs of World War II and graduating a generation of engineers into a consumer and cold war economy that seemed limitless. Communication between scientists, engineers and corporations were relatively open, and ideas flowed freely. There was none. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Interestingly enough, Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford Engineering was tied to all three companies. The first limited partnership that lasted for a while was formed by Davis and Rock in 1961.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

WP Engine, Sparefoot and Aceable raised massive rounds of funding. Chris is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who has been a mentor for years. and some tough times where we had to lean on each other, too. Operations and Finance We have many different business lines with internal dependencies between them.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. The 20-year venture capitalist is an "angel" investor in Mr. Dreymanns new start-up, Mowingo Inc., Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. In other words, the future of financing is continuous funding, not discrete.

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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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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? These don't come with titles.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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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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