Customer Development Portfolio Silicon Valley Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
These four developments, while important to Silicon Valley, are vital to developing regional tech clusters. While the density of Silicon Valley startups can’t be replicated in regions, the barriers of money and resources have disappeared. Why Valley Rules Don’t Work in Regional Economies.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” It’s an impressive portfolio.
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
In the next few posts that follow, I’ll describe more specifically how this model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Venture portfolio companies don’t succeed because they used the Product Development model they succeeded in spite of using it.
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
When Netscape went public, it unleashed a frenzy from the public markets for anything related to the internet and signaled to venture investors that there were massive returns to be made investing in anything internet related. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 11, 2010
The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model , reducing customer and market risk. The first step of Customer Development is called Customer Discovery. outside the building and test them in front of customers.
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