Cloud Lean Seed Stage Venture Capital 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. Some have done earlier-stage deals and done well.
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steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…).
Genuine VC
JANUARY 3, 2013
According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. The nuance which isn’t being recognized is that most of the companies of this latter profile, while viable businesses, aren’t venture-scale businesses.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 24, 2012
SyncBloc is a place that takes incredibly large files that are all stuck on your offline non-cloud service and helps you sync it with the cloud. of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. So VCs invest in different stages. 99%, maybe 99.8%
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. 12comments: Dougvs said. In that I see opportunity.
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