Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 19, 2014
Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.
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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!).
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!).
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 3, 2013
Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.
Steve Blank
APRIL 8, 2010
There must be something really wrong with our business. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. Why a business plan is different than a business model. A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 20, 2011
Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.
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