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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. Build $10-30M funds.

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How Do You Want to Spend Your Next 4 Years of Your Life?

Steve Blank

As our Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences class winds down, a good number of the 26 teams are trying to figure out whether they should go forward to turn their class project into a business. It was a lifelong lesson that taught me to never start a business where you hate your customers. see 0:30 in the video below). It never goes well.

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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

You can be an Independent studio or do “work for hire&# (either a revenue share or buy-out model) - If you’re an independent studio you have a set of choices for distribution channel and marketing models. - We understood none of this. More detail in future posts. steve Twitted by altgate , on July 2, 2009 at 5:22 pm Said: [.]

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

In a Lean Startup , the goal is to preserve your cash until you find a repeatable and scalable business model. In normal times, when there aren’t dollars to undo mistakes, you use Customer Development to find product-market fit. How much do they need to own at a liquidity event? When to raise money.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

In a Lean Startup , the goal is to preserve your cash until you find a repeatable and scalable business model. In normal times, when there aren’t dollars to undo mistakes, you use Customer Development to find product-market fit. How much do they need to own at a liquidity event? When to raise money.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. Customer Development. Lean Startup Machine. Lean Startups. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.