Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

Alexander Osterwalder ‘s inspired approach to defining the business model in his book Business Model Generation provide a framework for the Customer Development and the search for facts behind the hypotheses that make up a new venture. He called the combination “ The Lean Startup ” and wrote a great book with that name.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

VENTURE CAPITAL. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

Alexander Osterwalder ‘s inspired approach to defining the business model in his book Business Model Generation provide a framework for the Customer Development and the search for facts behind the hypotheses that make up a new venture. He called the combination “ The Lean Startup ” and wrote a great book with that name.

Technical Review 219

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 219

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Another trend born in the omnichannel framework is the customer data platform (CDM). In my experience, I follow different resources, for instance, the Andreessen Horowitz blog , one of the top venture capital funds reporting trends in their newsletters, and INC.5000 5000 , a blog about the fastest-growing business models.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. I mentioned at the start that Kevin has taught me something about Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. This is critical to build a cohesive venture capital firm. How does the partnership typically make its final investment decisions? We operate a policy of “no retribution” and “no reciprocity.”

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. But the venture guys don’t make the calls on what the product / business guys do.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

But the lessons, frameworks and paradigms can be applied successfully to the "other" VC type of investing as well. Again, many of the same lean start-up processes that Mint.com or Xobni or others have deployed in the Web 2.0 would feel very natural to the dozen PhDs running Predictive.

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David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Today, some Momentum-centric venture capital investors have high paper returns. Simple reason: most of them have known only a rising market in their careers, and in such a market the companies that are already hot can usually raise more capital and force growth. But VC is historically and consistently cyclical.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. You can be a small tiger with big teeth, or an aging dinosaur.

Intellectual Property 281

Intellectual Property Startup Early Stage Venture Capital 281

David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. Lowering that failure rate would be highly impactful on venture capitalist returns, if we could figure out how to do it. Koen, Gyorgy, and Adham are all Columbia Business School MBA 2012 students and former consultants with McKinsey and BCG.

Portfolio 144

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. On the other hand, exits at lower prices are easier with these providers of capital. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

Incentivize the Formation and Commitment of Angel Capital. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. Increase Startups Access to Capital. “Regulations Are Killing Us” Devise a Preferential Regulatory Framework for New Business. Cultivate the Formation of Viable New Businesses.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

80+ effective email templates 70 marketing books 120 Customer support resources Brand storytelling framework for founders 50+ tools for scaling eCommerce Planning and pipeline tools 80 stock image and video sites Web marketing strategy. ?Venture Venture capital. Sales, Marketing and customer success. Online education.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

When I first read about the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) on Steve’s blog, I was excited by Steve’s attempt to bridge the capital-efficient Lean Startup process for founders with the capital-raising process for funders. Since I began incorporating the Investment Readiness Level framework I’ve made three observations.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

But until now I haven’t been able to articulate a framework of why or had a concrete suggestion of what to replace them with. They called back laughing and the invitation disappeared. At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. Business Plan Versus Business Models. Without much thought it has been used ever since.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Village Capital: Alternative Investment Strategies to Drive Inclusive Innovation.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

1:30PM HILTON AUSTIN DOWNTOWN, SALON K SIMÓN BORRERO, Rappi RODOLFO GONZALEZ, Foundation Capital COURTNEY MCCOLGAN, Runa HR DANIEL VOGEL, Bitso Latin American startups are attracting a record amount of venture capital funding. Yet female founders received only 2% of venture capital dollars in 2017. What gives?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

At Wildcat, we’ve organized these steps into the Traction Gap Framework – a centralized strategy that codifies key lessons learned by me and my founding General Partners over the course of our decades-long operating and venture investing experience. And so the Traction Gap Framework was born. It’s brutal out there.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 13, 2010

4) Product management is the most underappreciated focus of venture capitalists—and it’s something I should have made more of a priority as an entrepreneur. We ask about product roadmap, but we really should be asking about the process and decision making framework that you’re using to figure out that roadmap as you go along.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Their services are built around the ACT framework (Assess, Create and Transform), which is a proven process for accelerating growth.

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Founder Private Equity B2B India 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. You can be a small tiger with big teeth, or an aging dinosaur.

Intellectual Property 236

Intellectual Property Early Stage Venture Capital Framework 236

techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. You can reach him at rip[at]techcrunch[dot]com → Learn More.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

Those experiences led me to refine my decision-making framework. One of common misconceptions outsiders have about venture capital investing is overestimating the importance of data in the decision-making process. One of the fundamental principles of venture capital is that size does matter. DATA AND VC INVESTING.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Now that everything is in the cloud, many ventures are looking toward building their own Something as a Service to leverage their expertise and get third parties to adopt their frameworks. Louis areas, was another reason for starting up his engineering team there.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e., the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these!

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

I’ve also shared my insights with Techcrunch, in “ 5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more “ As venture capital investors, one question we think about a lot at Remagine Ventures is “where are the opportunities for startups in the Creator Economy?”

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market - crowdspring.co/1xaoN3x. 7 Step Framework For Starting a Company – crowdspring.co/1x7MgWi. By @jopas pic.twitter.com/35FAQfMeow. The Danger Hiding in Your Data – crowdspring.co/1ohW9O3. 33 Best SEO Tools for Blogging – crowdspring.co/1t2l0kr. 1t2l0kr.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options. These costs have come down a lot since then, and the rules have been tweaked a bit but the overall 409A framework still is as it was when originally adopted – companies must hire a 3rd party to value their stock each year.

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Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

However, in order for cryptocurrency to achieve this potential and for the industry to mature, there is a growing need for foundational infrastructure and regulatory frameworks to drive compliance and transparency between all stakeholders.

Web 48

Web Silicon Valley Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 48

deal architect

APRIL 2, 2019

In Part 1, Bruce Cleveland talked about the framework in his new book, Traversing the Traction Gap. Here we talk about partnering and white spaces in the market. Most enterprise vendors now offer their own platforms. Could they use your.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 19, 2012

These larger frameworks have set the stage for smaller, more niche innovators to bring their products, apps, and ideas to the mainstream market. “A Though few innovators enter the space looking to make huge profits, the need to remain at least solvent means that fundraising and venture capital investments quickly become quite important.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Was this a lost decade for venture capital? What comes to mind is the old saying, “when your taxi driver is telling you to buy, you should be selling”.

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