Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

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. ——-.

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

Customer Development 219

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.”

Vertical 144

Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 144

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers.

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane Merrifield is a co-founder and CEO of FreshGrade , a learning collaboration and portfolio tool focused on enhancing teachers’ lives and making students’ learning visible. They all had no idea what to do with us, because they were used to a database and the web, and the web sessions last for minutes at a time.

Cofounder 145

Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 145

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane Merrifield is a co-founder and CEO of FreshGrade , a learning collaboration and portfolio tool focused on enhancing teachers’ lives and making students’ learning visible. They all had no idea what to do with us, because they were used to a database and the web, and the web sessions last for minutes at a time.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We put (these inventions and patents) out on the web or we contact companies etc. We have lots and lots of good technologies but it seems that our system is such that many of the large companies can’t either recognize that or don’t want to invest in this early stage stuff. .

Government 120

Government Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 120