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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Just as a refresher.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. You can bootstrap it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Listen to my full interviews with Stan and Matt by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. You can bootstrap it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Listen to my full interviews with Stan and Matt by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . Again, remember, everyone was losing their job, no one was willing to invest and so we had to bootstrap Prezi in the beginning. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. It took a long time for our market to develop, so Oracle wasn’t exactly a growth explosion in the early days. Back then he advocated for.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 25: Nigel and Vaughn Caldon and Kerry Frank

Steve Blank

Nigel : … We’ve done a pretty decent job … bootstrapping with limited resources — trying to figure out different ways to get work done and move the needle without actually spending any money. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. The next step (in confidence) was knowing the space.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

We bootstrapped it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Lane and his team built a virtual world to give their kids a safe place to socialize online, thinking others might like it, too. They were in for a big surprise: Our hope was just to be able to find enough people out there that we could keep it sustainable.

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