Customer Early Stage Massachusetts Technical Review 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Within a decade, the rise of venture capital in Silicon Valley enabled startups to find commercial customers rather than military ones. America’s adversaries understand this.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers. Rangrut.com.
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ReadWriteStart
APRIL 14, 2011
a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 7, 2010
At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. Well, it turns out that with about $900,000 and 12 months, Siobhan can get to paying customers. We will work on that with her. Trendy Loot.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. TheNextBigZing.com.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies.
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