Business Model Partner Product Development Startup 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. Pre-seed round tends to be the first ‘institutional’ round of funding in a startup. Seed is about showing initial product market fit.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 1, 2013
Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. I challenge any startup to show me they have avoided all of these: One of the founders isn’t delivering. The team buys its own propaganda, and fully expects customers to be leaping tall buildings to get to your product.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 6, 2011
Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. I challenge any startup to show me they have avoided all of these: One of the founders isn’t delivering. The team buys its own propaganda, and fully expects customers to be leaping tall buildings to get to your product.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. You can’t be an effective founder or in the C-suite of a startup if you don’t hold any. Here’s how I learned why they were critical to successful customer development. Who are the payers?
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. In what order? Silicon Valley, Boston).
Steve Blank
MAY 6, 2015
It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Build a product, get it into the real world, measure customers’ reactions and behaviors, learn from this, and use what you’ve learned to build something better. Waterfall Development. Here’s how.
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