VC Cafe
JULY 26, 2020
But when it comes to launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) these days, as incremental and iterative prototypes, things have changed significantly: Capital abundance: There’s never been more seed capital in the market. Single users can test enterprise software using a credit card. Cash (alone) isn’t king.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. In the 1950’s and ‘60’s U.S.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 31, 2019
It has become an established term in the software industry to indicate the short term fixes of quick and dirty coding that can create problems down the road — problems that come knocking at the door to collect with interest. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion dollars of regional GDP.
View from Seed
DECEMBER 8, 2015
This notion of founder/market fit is incredibly important for pre-product companies who are out raising seed capital or pre-seed (aka genesis rounds) — both of which we invest in. The other consideration around PMF is the cost and time that will be required to really show demonstrable PMF.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 11, 2021
Which leads us to the fundamental difference between, say, a small self-funded online therapy practice and one that has taken millions of dollars in seed capital: the latter can acquire a larger number of patients much faster using investment dollars for both customer acquisition and to subsidize the economics of serving those clients.
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