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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

(In hindsight we were having our employees get out of the building to talk to customers, build prototypes and generate partner interest – essentially doing Customer Discovery years before Steve Blank taught his Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and the National Science Foundation!). What went right? We had C-level support.

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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

(In hindsight we were having our employees get out of the building to talk to customers, build prototypes and generate partner interest – essentially doing Customer Discovery years before Steve Blank taught his Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and the National Science Foundation!). What went right? We had C-level support.

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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. Ride-share companies are pivoting toward food and grocery delivery, restaurants are working from “ghost kitchens” and developing new menu concepts conducive to drive-ups and leaner budgets.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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. Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world? You’re not joining a big company.

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How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups

SoCal CTO

They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. What are they really looking for? What do you really need to prove? is a requirement. is a requirement.

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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Hopefully by that time you’ve developed the idea much further and in much greater detail – by talking to as many people as possible. link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? Ideas are worthless!!!

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