Boston Product Development Programming Seed Capital 
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
And, as one entrepreneur put it to me, "we understood that a big part of our responsibility in the program was to make sure the mentors have a good experience, by taking their advice to heart and giving them a feeling of being part of our evolution as a company." Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.
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