Entrepreneur Leadership Redemption Startup 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.
crowdSPRING Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2010
But instead of focusing on just one category of thing, I am going to mix it up and make it about various resources any entrepreneur might benefit from. So I considered resources that I use on a regular basis, that provide real value to me in my own life as a startup co-Founder and that I think others will benefit from.
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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Eighty some pages later I realized that a) I had some great war stories as a good marketeer and failed CEO, b) I’d have to pay my wife and kids to read them, c) the three of them were probably the entire total available market, and d) when I looked at what I had done and what other entrepreneurs had done at their startups, that there was a pattern.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 20, 2015
The most glorious media story arc is rags to riches to rags with redemption back to riches. If suddenly I’m needed for something, or get an assignment from the CEO or anyone else on the leadership team, I get after it. Great startup communities work the same way. Most of all, I want to provide leadership through doing.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 30, 2015
When raising your first round of capital, there are a few common mistakes many entrepreneurs make. I’ve been lucky enough to screw up by both funding my startup too early and too late. I then signed off on an ugly redemption clause without analyzing the waterfall in an average exit scenario. Raising too early or too late.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
When I looked at the diagram in that ski cabin I realized there was a fundamental question I couldn’t answer: if all startups follow that model, why is it that some companies are opening bottles of champagne at their IPO and others who almost followed the same rules are selling off their furniture? Were all startups the same?
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 8, 2014
Redemption is all around us every wherever we look, whether as a plot-line in a movie or in the world of politics. Entrepreneurs make mistakes every single day, many of them completely unforced errors. Related posts: Small Business and Startups: Thinking About Business Plans (again). Mom told us to learn from our mistakes.
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