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

Steve Blank

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 What’s Missing Is Early Stage Capital. Here’s Part 2 of Dino’s story….

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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. But I wonder if the success is due to or in spite of VCs.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

The test is: If you add one more sales person or spend more marketing dollars, does your sales revenue go up by more than your expenses? Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers? What are revenue strategy and pricing tactics? What is an IRR?

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

The test is: If you add one more sales person or spend more marketing dollars, does your sales revenue go up by more than your expenses? Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers? What are revenue strategy and pricing tactics? What is an IRR?

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" It's the developer's turn to ask the Biz Guy. Now we turn it around.