Remove B2C Remove Customer Development Remove Valuation Remove Venture Capital
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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. But we’re doing it slowly. 6) Negotiate deal.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

However, this does not mean that investors don’t have a significant effect on valuations and M&A). B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital.

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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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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.