Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2010

Startups are the search to find order in chaos. At a board meeting last week I watched as the young startup CEO delivered bad news. Each sale requires us to handhold the customer and takes way too long to close. The Search for the Business Model. Pivoting the Business Model. Steve Blank.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Now it’s time to set the stage with the early traction you have. Seed stage VCs are realistic about how much traction a very raw company might have. B) Post-Product Companies.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2011

TokBox , a US-based video chat startup, raised $12 million in Series C funding from DAG Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Bain Capital last November, after going through a significant pivot. TokBox essentially stopped developing its consumer facing product, instead focusing on Open Tok, its video chat API , as its core business.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If there is traction, ok…there are some benchmarks and you can look at seed stage funding rounds. While it’s flattering that someone might think I’m capable of immediately grasping all the complexities of the business instantly, it’s a bit unrealistic. You don’t have a defensible business model.

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