Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. Silicon Valley’s development is intimately entwined with the long history of industrialization and innovation in the larger San Francisco Bay Area. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

I tried to make sure we always gave the same answer: "if you manage to take the site down, thats our fault for making it too easy. In the case of an entrepreneur pitching for finance, its the same fear that has them putting on a facade and not comfortable in what they do and dont know that will see them a long way off getting funded.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

I used to call them “executioners” because their attempts to “execute” the standard general management playbook in the startup context of extreme uncertainty usually led to disaster. They have the ultimate responsibility in a venture-backed company of deciding whether to fire the founders and bring in “professional management.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. Just ensure you understand your numbers and manage them well. $50 Hi Dan, Can you share on what is your strategy in getting customers ? How did you get your first customer and what works/didn’t work along the process? What you measure, you manage).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Compounding is not a process that most people find intuitive, and thats as true in engineering as it is in finance, so it requires a lot of encouragement in the early days to stay the course. Product and engineering managers will be better off if they adopted a iterative approach to refactoring.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

There’s some fantastic producers in terms of who the output of those accelerators and incubators have been in Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco. I’ve done this with lots of founders and we usually glaringly see skills missing like financial management or HR managements or digital marketing or whatever those things are.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. We now have specific management tools to grow startups. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch.

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