Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Understanding the left-side of the mission model canvas ( activities, resources , partners , and costs) forces all teams to ask, “Are we building a product for a DOD/IC customer only or do we have a “dual-use” product that could be sold commercially and get funded by venture capital?”. This post is a continuation of the series.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. A good investor can do a lot to help a company, but can’t make customers buy products.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

And they figure out how they could digitally enable their business – supply chain, customer interactions, etc. They explore and analyze data using machine learning platforms to create models about customers, processes, risks, or whatever they’re trying to predict. Making business smarter : Customer Support. What’s Different?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Blockdaemon on their seed round led by Comcast Ventures and Wallaroo Labs on its seed led by RRE Ventures.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. They do not anticipate certifying or approving any Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution security products for usage by National Security System customers unless these limitations are overcome. Quantum Timing.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). In a world without cookies, we’ll see smart alternatives to targeting that avoid cookies altogether: contextual targeting, time-based targeting, and using syndicated and custom audiences, according to the 2021 media trends and predictions by Kantar.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

As previously highlighted on VC Cafe (based on research by Sapphire Ventures) , while many funds avoid B2C investments, consumer startups can create extremely lucrative power-law returns for venture capital investors. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. Building a ubiquitous platform that enables B2B payments at the right time and place, integrating with other suppliers’ offerings, improves the customer experience, extends Melio’s reach and fuels the rise of adoption within vertical SaaS products.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. By 1961 its customers now included our intelligence agencies. There were no venture investors. The “customers’” contracts funded the company. The “customers” in Washington had never seen anything like it.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Hila spent 12 years as the VP Marketing for Israeli venture capital fund Viola before embarking on an independent CMO career for startups. These steps are vital to securing initial funding and attracting pilots, design partners, and customers. . Are brand and storytelling important before product-market-fit?

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent. A more sophisticated way to do this: calculate your internal ratios , e.g., your Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

High quality SaaS offerings that make it easy for people to utilise learning algorithms will find eager customers, and MetaMind , bringing cutting-edge deep learning to your dataset, is one such with all the right credentials. Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. link] The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog. [.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. When Selling is the Worst Way to Win Customers – [link]. When Selling is the Worst Way to Win Customers – [link]. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Web Tool of the Month: crowdSPRING – [link].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue , in the Department of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, observed that bubbles have four phases; stealth, awareness, mania and blow-off. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. This resulted in tons of collaboration with large enterprises ranging from product feedback to pilots and customer relationships. — BOLDstart Ventures (@Boldstartvc) June 16, 2017.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

And our portfolio continued to grow: Day one lead/co-lead in 14 founding teams: (most still in stealth) representing , , , , , , Continued investments in developer first, SaaS, and crypto infrastructure companies. Ab Gupta , Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer. Ernest Addison , Associate and formerly at Audax group.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. At Roozt, we struggled with customer service as we grew. The number of daily cases we had quickly rose from 10 to 100 to 1,000, and our lone customer service representative insisted that we hire another person to help out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

Identify customer executives who need your solution. Many savvy entrepreneurs are able to convince high-potential customers that investing early in a high-value solution, perhaps through an advance on royalties, is in their best interest. Reach out to your biggest fans for investor leads.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

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. The seed ecosystem for health companies is much less robust than in traditional software. 3) Health Data Applications.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Cellcom partnered with Citi Bank to offer its customers a mobile payments solution and money transferring, to be launched by the end of 2010. The company was founded in 2007.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. Get Custom Local Business Recommendat.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Since most of our companies have a product that is in alpha stage (super early, buggy), we like to help our entrepreneurs get more market data and customer feedback through our relationships to help them further refine their product. Entrepreneurship Venture Capital boldstart ethos investment strategy investment themes value add'

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So originally the customer was the Department of Defense. It was the first customer for the computer. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Full disclosure: I'm an investor in a stealth daily fantasy sports company. If you want to track the influence of gambling, you make it as legal as possible, but you make it a requirement for everyone who takes a bet to know their customer, just like in banking and securities. Legality puts a spotlight in dark corners.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

You set up your own bookkeeping firm in New York, so I’m curious to hear your thinking around this and whether you think other founders should try and gain this first-hand understanding of the customer problem. Starting a bookkeeping service was the fastest way to engage with customers. Let’s talk about your financing strategy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

I had to decide what I wanted to do with my career – go back to ESL, try to work for the Customer, or stay at Zilog? to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. No one laughed when ESL proposed this class of project to “the customer.”

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Some have made the model work. It’s great advice.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Although the full content of our upcoming accelerator/incubator, Sputnik ATX, is still in stealth mode, I’d like to share a quick rule you should apply to any business idea that you want to pursue. It stinks to tell people when their ideas are smoldering rubbish, so most VCs don’t and just politely decline or ignore bad business pitches.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Although the full content of our upcoming accelerator/incubator, Sputnik ATX, is still in stealth mode, I’d like to share a quick rule you should apply to any business idea that you want to pursue. It stinks to tell people when their ideas are smoldering rubbish, so most VCs don’t and just politely decline or ignore bad business pitches.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

As a former entrepreneur, I have always viewed venture capital as a service business. When we started Flybridge over thirteen years ago, we developed a firm mission statement that we would treat early stage founders as our valued customers and have lived by this mission throughout our history.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed. Reply Ben C. ,

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