Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees. And Mark Suster of Upfront Capital has a great post that summarizes these changes. It’s called Growth capital. On its surface this was a pretty radical idea.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

And what are its costs? If you’re a lifestyle entrepreneur or a small business, odds are the return you can provide is not what traditional angel or venture investors are looking for. If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses.

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 334

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

And what are its costs? If you’re a lifestyle entrepreneur or a small business, odds are the return you can provide is not what traditional angel or venture investors are looking for. If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses.

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 226