Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor. A few nuggets. 1) Hire A’s. A’s hire B’s, B’s hire C’s.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the venture capital industry.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the Venture Capital industry. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. First, Venture Capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S.

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