Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. Get customers first.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2015
Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. In Silicon Valley, most boards ultimately make decisions based on a consensus. With direct customers, personally identifiable data is of most concern. Patent Trolls. “This is a shakedown,” said Schmitz.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction. Let’s assume $2 million in seed money. It says if you want to make “real” money - quit. Get some famous angel or seed money.
www.businessinsider.com
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Silicon Valley 100. Enter you email address and zip code to set up customized email alerts. Grahams startups go through a months-long process of coaching to help them build products and raise money. Notes like this are part of Grahams ongoing process of steering them through the thickets of Silicon Valley startup life.
pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. ”The venture business in general is wildly undisciplined about throwing good money after bad,” he says. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
Series A rounds, where you raise a million dollars or more, will be custom deals for the forseeable future. Startup Hubs Will Persist It might seem that if startups get cheap to start, it will mean the end of startup hubs like Silicon Valley. If all you need to start a startup is rent money, you should be able to do it anywhere.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2010
Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). And then there is GRP Partners.
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