Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? When you are presenting to a VC there are two conversations going on – the one you are presenting and the one that investors are thinking as they are listening to your presentation. (If You might as well bring your lucky rabbits foot to the VC meeting. How many are there?

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. Myth #1: I need to get VC funding to make my company successful. Does your definition of a successful company involve getting VC funding, working for a few years, and then selling it off for gobs of money, never to return to work again?

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

He welcomed us by screaming, “Do you know how much it costs every minute this line is down.&# Reply Jonathan Payne , on May 20, 2009 at 8:43 pm Said: fascinating. Reply Mo , on May 20, 2009 at 10:38 am Said: I’m wondering how someone can practice operating in chaos? the manager followed us still yelling.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

So we would always wait to the last minute to provide our boards for testing and then “forget” to ship the cables to connect the board to a computer monitor. » 8 Responses Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution « Yet Another VC Blog , on April 2, 2009 at 6:19 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. They had all my words from a year ago, but hey wait a minute, there’s someone else’s logo on my slides?! Are These Your Slides? He said, “Look again.” What’s going on?

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? If he sells the sites I created he’ll give me 20% of the sales price because my income will have vanished. Excellent article and I’m going to re-read it here in a minute.

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