Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Today, you can start a web/mobile/cloud startup for $500,000 and have money left over. Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Early-stage Venture Capital firms grow their partnerships in different ways, some hire: partners from other firms.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Technical Review Startup 332

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2011

Max and his partners had interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. In May they released the first Startup Genome Report — an in-depth analysis on what makes early-stage Internet startups successful. I hadn’t heard from Max for awhile so I thought he took the summer off.

Software Review 292

Software Review Early Stage Technical Review Startup 292

The Next Web

JUNE 8, 2014

Yoav Leitersdorf and Ofer Schreiber of are partners at YL Ventures. The keys are maintaining capital efficiency, launching early versions to the SMB market and constantly applying customer development methods. This story continues at The Next Web. Developing an enterprise-grade SaaS product is not easy.

B2C 132

B2C B2B IP Technical Review 132

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions.

Angel Investor 342

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Portfolio 342

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web.

Partner 360

Partner Las Vegas Los Angeles San Francisco 360

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes. The role of VC is sparring partner. It’s the executives who trust you to join the early-stage startups you’ve funded.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage 150

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Today they released the first Startup Genome Report — a 67 page in-depth analysis on what makes early-stage Internet startups successful. They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups.

Technical Cofounder 333

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 333

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. each with partners as the lead. dot-com bonanza.

Pre-Money Valuation 471

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage.

NDA 211

NDA Stealth Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement 211

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage.

NDA 198

NDA Stealth Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement 198

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

As a starting point the more you’re on their mind the more likely they’re out advocating on your behalf when they are out talking with senior executives at potential customers, future potential investors, potential employees, biz dev partners, journalists and all of the other constituencies where investors should be helping you. It happens.

Early Stage 212

Early Stage Technical Review Email Valuation 212

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly

Technical Review 286

Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2011

Max and his partners had interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. In May they released the first Startup Genome Report -- an in-depth analysis on what makes early-stage Internet startups successful. I hadn't heard from Max for awhile so I thought he took the summer off.

Software Review 134

Software Review Early Stage Startup Technical Review 134

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They want to lock in future clients at an early stage. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work. I also like to work with partners.

Southern California 318

Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

He and I once took different sides of an debate about whether “VC signaling&# in early-stage deals is a serious problem or not. Chris runs a popular web interview series on TechCrunch so is used to being the guy asking the questions. I’ve also found him to not be dogmatic either.

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Cofounder API 281

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In the early stages of every technology, the market is usually dominated by products built for early adopters who are typically tech savvy – this mainly consists of developers who like to have full control over a product and its features. 1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks.

PHP 143

PHP Management HTML Framework 143

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

You’re not going to be an incredible CFO/CEO/graphic designer/web developer. If you want to increase your chances of startup success, you should invest in the expertise of select professionals with specialized skills, even in the earlier stages of your company. A mentor or partner who can share their power of experience.

Hiring 77

Hiring Technical Review Small Business Forecast 77

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The post below first appeared as a guest post by me on the Web Summit Blog. He was on the money when he said that for early stage investments having a great team is most important but for later stage investments the market matters more.

Early Stage 123

Early Stage Institutional Investors Venture Capital Startup 123

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

New Web Order. Webmasterworld - A popular forum for web developers. SitePoint Forums - A popular marketplace and forum for web developers. Is there a similar product that already exists that perhaps you can partner with? (ie. it doesnt exist) and work with them to build something that they would partner with you on.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions.

Angel Investor 314

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Startup 314

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

web development projects. Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development.

Offshore 20

Offshore Web Development Europe Web 20

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations.

Developer 396

Developer Founder Viral Oauth 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations.

Developer 384

Developer Founder Viral Oauth 384

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. It makes this early stage challenging. How can we address this risk?

CTO 225

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 225

Growthink Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

I then offered to share some of our research findings as to the selection strategies that early-stage technology investors like Sequoia now utilize to identify companies with this kind of return potential. And how Sequoia’s return on that $60 million was close to $3 billion, or more than 50 times its original investment.

Technical Review 91

Technical Review IPO Early Stage Valuation 91

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

02:06] Can you share your experience starting with an early-stage company (Hubspot) that eventually went public? [07:11] In fact, when Brian and Dharmesh were actually creating it and wrote the book Inbound Marketing, that's when Duct Tape Marketing was really around and I had a lot of conversations with them early on.

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Metrics Analytics Forecast Software Review 75

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

But the problem with this is that most VCs in the Valley, especially early stage ones, only like to invest in companies that are within driving distance from their offices. In India, the leading firms are slightly more concentrated with Sequoia India , Accel Partners , and Nexus Venture Partners being a cut above the rest.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. Amazon hosts an annual startup challenge for companies using Amazon Web Services (AWS). 1) Corporate Venture Capital. 3) Freebies. 4) Accelerators.

Startup 114

Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

This can set up a perfect storm if early-stage companies don’t manage their expectations and reality properly. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need. In short, Perez believes that we are currently in the deployment period for web and mobile.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio Valuation 60

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 We three partners are working hard. Ps check mypicasso.com.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. – not just web-based startups. We tried to weed out those that were unsure why they were there as well as those trying to build yet another fad of the week web site.

Lean 298

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. Use IP-identification to better serve your customers.

B2B 150

B2B Sales Cycle Belgium IP 150

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

But when it comes to core technical skills, more and more entrepreneurs are opting to partner with technical co-founders rather than hiring someone for an in-house position. I may be biased - as I am a graphic designer with programming, Web and marketing skills - but to me it is highly important that a founder have some tech skills.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Cofounder Founder Software Review 131