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 Customer Development + Seed Stage
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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | | | VENTURE HACKS JULY 31, 2010 How to raise money with no lead Should you have a board seat for seed investors? Does a small seed round need protective provisions? Before you raise a seed round, you need a product in the marketplace. Use customer development and lean startup techniques to get to market with less. What are the different types of seed stage investors? | | | | | |
| STEVE BLANK AUGUST 27, 2009 The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product. 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. None of mine did.) | | VENTURE HACKS JULY 31, 2010 How to raise money with no lead This post explains how to raise a seed round with no lead, no fixed amount, and a fluid closing date. Mass syndication is a single continuous seed round and I think it’s the state of the art in continuous fundraising. Should you have a board seat for seed investors? Does a small seed round need protective provisions? | STEVEBLANK.COM JULY 8, 2011  Startup Tools It became my bible (after the real one to develop my company LocalBooking. am still trying to figure out the right market and customers for it. | | | | | | | |
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THE PRODUCT GUY | MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010  Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model
Each sale requires us to handhold the customer and takes way too long to close. He took a deep breath, looked around the boardroom table and then proceeded to outline a radical reconfiguration of the product line (repackaging the products rather than reengineering them) and a change in sales strategy, focusing on a different customer segment. MORE >> -
STARTUP HOUSTON | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011 December Startup Events
who just launched [link] and invented the term Thunder Lizards for investing in seed stage startups. Lean Startup Circle Houston – Steve Blank – Customer Development – Thursday Dec. Android Meetup – Critiques of Your Android App Idea Tuesday Dec. 5pm Freed-Montrose Library 4100 Montrose Boulevard. MORE >> -
STARTUP HOUSTON | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011 December Startup Events
who just launched [link] and invented the term Thunder Lizards for investing in seed stage startups. Lean Startup Circle Houston – Steve Blank – Customer Development – Thursday Dec. Android Meetup – Critiques of Your Android App Idea Tuesday Dec. 5pm Freed-Montrose Library 4100 Montrose Boulevard. MORE >> -
500 HATS | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011 Brief Thoughts on Angel List, "Social Proof", "Spray & Pray", & The Network Effects of Large Scale Investing
it's not a majority of my activity, but it's significant -- 500 Startups has invested in ~100 deals since we got started last year, mostly at seed stage (altho we recently started our incubator / accelerator program in the past few months). Behavioral Psychology & Customer Development. Period. pretty cool. MORE >> -
ASH MAURYA | TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2010  Bootstrapping a Lean Startup
Home About Me SUBSCRIBE TO THIS BLOG ash maurya Practice Trumps Theory: Lean Startup + Customer Development + Bootstrap Bootstrapping a Lean Startup March 23, 2010 Share While not the same thing, Bootstrapping and Lean Startups are quite complementary. and work their way towards sustainability through customer acquired funding. MORE >>
- Marching through quicksand STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2009
- How Experienced Developers Can Handicap a Lean Startup KEVIN DEWALT | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009
- Walkbase Takes Location Tracking Indoors ARCTICSTARTUP | TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011
- Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity GRASSHOPPERHERDER.COM | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
- 60 Second Interview with TokBox’s CEO on Pivoting Your Startup Business Model VC CAFE | TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2011
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