Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The SBIR/STTR program represents a critical source of seed funding for U.S. Eleven U.S.

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SBIR Maryland Lean Seed Stage 120

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 263

VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2011

The CEO then needs to assess those opportunities, validating them through market research and customer development and if ultimately, one of those new opportunities proves to be larger than or incremental to the existing business opportunity, they need to clearly articulate that change of direction to the team and execute the transition rapidly.

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Business Model API Wiki Seed Stage 84

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The product was still evolving but their execution ability and customer development had accelerated nicely during the startup’s first few months. As the fundraising became competitive, there was another seed fund which wanted to take a larger part of the round – essentially function as a single lead.

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Cofounder Term Sheet Seed Stage Portfolio 105

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If there is traction, ok…there are some benchmarks and you can look at seed stage funding rounds. Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development. Personas for Customer Development. Customer Development (27). Lean startup (26). The 3 Best Tools for Mockups and Wireframes. Categories.

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Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110