Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. The Funding Problem.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? .
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. and aim for hundreds of millions of customers.
Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. JustEat - is the intermediary between customers and independent takeaway food outlets. Sold to Yahoo!
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
“That’s followed by social-media marketing and press, which really is another way of saying, ‘We need lots of customers.’ Epinions, which we started in 1998, had five cofounders instead of two, primarily because it was really hard to recruit early-stage employees without giving them cofounder equity.”
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