Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

(In hindsight we were having our employees get out of the building to talk to customers, build prototypes and generate partner interest – essentially doing Customer Discovery years before Steve Blank taught his Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and the National Science Foundation!).

Programming 291

Programming Design Lean Seed Money 291

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

(In hindsight we were having our employees get out of the building to talk to customers, build prototypes and generate partner interest – essentially doing Customer Discovery years before Steve Blank taught his Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and the National Science Foundation!).

Programming 283

Programming Design Lean Seed Money 283

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Cofounder 219

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 219

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Think about how you can prove your business model with an MVP. Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. is a requirement.

Valuation 198

Valuation Revenue Pre-Money Valuation Early Stage 198

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84