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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. The popularity of the model can be judged by the fact that the U.S. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?”

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

No, the conversation was about to get more interesting. We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. This methodology forces rapid hypothesis testing and Customer Development by getting out of the building while building the product. billion U.S.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

business models. There is a huge difference between the Chinese who have never left and those who went to school abroad, even for a few months – at least a difference in their ability to relate to me and have a conversation on the same wavelength. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

business models. There is a huge difference between the Chinese who have never left and those who went to school abroad, even for a few months – at least a difference in their ability to relate to me and have a conversation on the same wavelength. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection.

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A New Way to Look at Competitors

Steve Blank

conversation with investors. (If The Petal Diagram drives your business model canvas. What the chart is saying is, “we think our customers will come from these markets.” What the chart is saying is, “we think our customers will come from these markets.”