View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Now it’s time to set the stage with the early traction you have. Seed stage VCs are realistic about how much traction a very raw company might have. B) Post-Product Companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Unfortunately, this content-less decision-making process is inhibiting the ability of media companies to develop interesting new content at the very time when this supposed expertise should serve as their one true competitive advantage. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 19, 2013

However, measuring the outcome of a fund has a long time horizon so there are several other metrics we keep on our dashboard. The product was still evolving but their execution ability and customer development had accelerated nicely during the startup’s first few months.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If there is traction, ok…there are some benchmarks and you can look at seed stage funding rounds. Unseen Metrics. The same company, didn’t have a system to accurately identify it’s own key metrics. Would you invest in a company that didn’t know it’s own metrics? Me neither. Categories.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Customer Development. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank.

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