Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
Thus began our search for a program that would properly balance the focus on the present with the need to increase our options for the future. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching. Qualcomm Innovation Process.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
Thus began our search for a program that would properly balance the focus on the present with the need to increase our options for the future. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching. Qualcomm Innovation Process.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 8, 2010
He and his co-founder were both PhD’s in applied math who believe they can make some serious inroads on next generation search. 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.”. Now he had my attention.
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!
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?
Berkonomics
MARCH 30, 2012
The great majority of investors who did invest in “idea stage” businesses, lost fortunes when the Internet “bubble” burst at the beginning of the last decade. When searching for funding, one of your primary tasks should be to start where it is easier, and proceed from there. Email readers, continue here.]
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.
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