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!). What went right? We had C-level support.

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!). What went right? We had C-level support.

Programming 283

Programming Design Lean Seed Money 283

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. No need to name names.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

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. By now the company may have found and settled on a repeatable business model. Thanks Steve!

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. A lot of my time is spent helping early-stage companies get to proof points so that they can raise capital. What are they really looking for?

Valuation 198

Valuation Revenue Pre-Money Valuation Early Stage 198

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”. It’s all about how bad you want it.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84