Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. THIS is why customers will care.” Why will your customers care about your company? “THIS is why we exist. THIS is what we aim to solve.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. When you’re an entrepreneur, yeah, there’s 100 gaps. Ajay Kshatriya. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. When you’re an entrepreneur, yeah, there’s 100 gaps. Ajay Kshatriya. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Seed Capital Texas 120

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

While it may be rude to say, a great time to start your own business is when a competitor is having difficulties, meaning you will get the customers that company fails to keep. Many failed entrepreneurs believed that as long as they had a large amount of seed capital, they could begin their startup and before long make it big.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Five tips for startups & small business about delivering great customer service – [link]. Five tips for startups & small business about delivering great customer service – [link]. Five tips for startups & small business about delivering great customer service – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Good perspective fon how long it takes for entrepreneur to know if their idea might succeed – crowdspring.co/1cNRjk2. Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. 1f35ml8. – crowdspring.co/1fkwYB1. 1f7YIKA. .

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

and we are already building a strong network of partners and customers. But, we jumped that hurdle successfully last year, when we presented our idea to the world through an ICO platform, where we raised our seed capital to make it happen. How and when did your team come together?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Typically serial entrepreneurs are serial because they have successfully exited from Startup One before beginning Startup Two, and they use the first one to fund the second. or (like Instagram or Twitter) explosive customer growth that can eventually be monetized. Unfortunately there is no magic involved here.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

For many entrepreneurs “raising money” has replaced “building a sustainable business” as their goal. Entrepreneurs need to think about 1) when to raise money, 2) why to raise money and 3) who to take money from, 4) the consequences of raising money. Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)?

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The NextView podcast Traction explores the clever, creative, and atypical things entrepreneurs do to make initial progress against the odds. We compare and contrast software to hardware in this episode, examining three core aspects of building any company: Building early products (customer dev, prototypes, etc.).

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s frustrating if you’re a customer of an expense report SaaS startup and the company goes out of business, but it’s potentially devastating if your tele-therapist or addiction counselor suddenly disappears because the platform that employed them ran out of money. And for venture-backed startups this tends to be “get them customers.”.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. This will almost always be the best approach to an investor.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. You needed to find the most scrappy and cost efficient way to get a product out, and in the process learned tons about the market and customer you are trying to serve.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.), But in my experience, it rarely fails that press coverage attracts the attention of a potential customer or possible new partner. there often isn’t one seminal round to announce.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Ta , entrepreneur, author and CEO of Sqeeqee.com. Often times, the people will have you believe that accomplished entrepreneurs had their success purely by dint of the invincibility of their irresistible ideas. I have identified 5 “boring” aspects of entrepreneurism that if focused on will lead to success: 1. By Jenny Q.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

For many entrepreneurs “raising money” has replaced “building a sustainable business” as their goal. Entrepreneurs need to think about 1) when to raise money, 2) why to raise money and 3) who to take money from, 4) the consequences of raising money. Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)?

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 226

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2013

Other investors in this financing round include SPRING Seeds Capital , Clearbridge BSA and Lu Yoh Chie of Biosensors International , and existing shareholder BioVeda. The filtered cancer cells remains alive, and can be used for further medical research as well as refining customized cancer treatment for patients.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

But theres no denying the level of support for entrepreneurs that we enjoy. They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. And every year, it looks as if one or two entrepreneurs from the program decide to stay. And do your customer development.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

Genuine VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

For entrepreneurs, seeking seed capital means meeting with numerous VC firms and sometimes dozens of angels… fun? Telling the same pitch over and over again… taking time away from more immediately impactful endeavors like recruiting and customer development… the endless follow-ups and inevitable radio silence… fun?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Here’s the problem: this opportunity doesn’t exist for early-stage startups, because, by definition, they have no users or customers. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their daily, weekly, quartely or yearly goals around their business. We asked entrepreneurs to share their BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) and here are the insightful responses. #1- A lot of great entrepreneurs who start here almost never end here. Photo Credit: Paige Arnof-Fenn.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The five conditions for a Series A financing which he enumerated are: a core team ready to scale, demonstrable market size, repeatable cost effective customer acquisition, metric momentum, and plausible monetization. But unfortunately these are neither necessary nor sufficient for raising that round, and are instead merely guideposts.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. This is doing right by both your company and your customers. Note that many were included in our pitch deck templates for raising seed capital.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies. 3) Health Data Applications.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. Create an Unstoppable Vision of Promise.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2013

“It became clear that although many of these low-income entrepreneurs have quality business ideas and a lot of motivation, they often lack the business knowledge and seed capital they to get the most out of their enterprises,” they add. She’s not alone.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

Most businesses – online or offline, need seed capital to get established and without access to these funds, launching a business can seem like an improbable dream. That seems like a lot of capital. Thousands of entrepreneurs around the world worked on their idea on the sides for months before taking it full-time.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you have probably heard or read the “maxim” that only 10% of startups are successful, but is this true? The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. Don’t listen to our customers. How can you avoid being part of the 90% of failed companies?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But set amidst sprawling furniture stores and assorted commercial companies that occupy much of the industrial labyrinth is an unlikely gem that seems better suited in a premium Orchard Road shopping mall: Cake Over Heels , a cheery boutique patisserie cum cafe that specializes in creating customized, decorative cakes. Customized Cakes.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The most important principle of startup fundraising that every entrepreneur needs to know is: raise enough capital to achieve a set of milestones that will allow the company to attract the next round of investment. At the bare minimum, obtain customer feedback and demonstrate that your product is fulfilling a real market need.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

The feedback is “come back when you’ve made more progress with customers.” In some cases this turned into nothing, but in a few cases it had magnificent outcomes for me and my gang, along with the entrepreneurs. The product gets a lot better. They go out to raise a Series A, but there are no takers.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

When we were last with Dick and Jane on Finance Fridays, our fearless entrepreneurs were figuring out how to split up their founders equity and account for an investment from Jane. In contrast, Josh was an experienced entrepreneur who had started several companies and likely learned his lessons through experience.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Up until then] the capstone class – meaning the best class you could take for being an entrepreneur in a university – was how to write a business plan.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. “I like a cogent, coherent presentation. .

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. The angel then introduces the entrepreneur to his or her wealthy friends and business connections who, based on the good reputation of the referring angel, also invest. All live happily ever after.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? Talk to your customers. Radian6 just did the same thing.

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