Remove Customer Development Remove Portland Remove Silicon Valley Remove Venture Capital
article thumbnail

Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Silicon Valley Transplants.

article thumbnail

Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. — As a transplanted Silicon Valley VC and now a regional investor, I often get asked, “How do we go about building up our local tech ecosystem?”. But it’s easy to get drowned out by the noise from Silicon Valley and other cities in Washington and Oregon.

Engineer 309