Distribution Product Development RSS Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) It encourages a startup to invest in customer discovery and validation in parallel with product development prior to product launch. Now In Print!
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Steve Blank
MAY 7, 2009
I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2009
This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). free, distributed source code control management system. Great for visualizing work of product development. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2009
Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) How does product development differ in communications hardware versus enterprise software, etc. would look in each of the verticals.
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