Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
Fourth, in the last decade, corporate investors and hedge funds have jumped into later stage investing with a passion. Their need to get into high-profile deals has driven late-stage valuations into unicorn territory. Where is it going? the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21st century.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). 17% (13 / 80).
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Bob had taken to heart the business model canvas and Customer Development lessons. After graduating he put together a prototype and had quickly marched through Customer Discovery , iterating his product with the help of CIOs and Fortune 1000 IT departments. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Every time an engineer checks in code, they are batching up a certain amount of work.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
They have hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers, world-class design studios, subject matter experts from supply chain to manufacturing. Of course, bringing startups (whether prospective or existing portfolio companies) closer to operating divisions has business and customer development benefits. Are they good sales people?
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 6, 2008
In order to prevent people from bunching up in the later stages of the work pipeline, those leaders need to be focused on automation and continuous improvement. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Make sure you keep track of whether thats happening.
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