K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

– a seed-stage fund. is a $6.25M fund that is designed to do concept and seed-stage investments in technology companies. No distributed teams, and no outsourced product development. The first closing for the fund was held in Q2 2009. Twilio (Seed and Series A). K9 Ventures, L.P.

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Seed Stage San Francisco IP Portfolio 61

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.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 269

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable.

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CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

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.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

And I sincerely hope that this post does a good job of addressing what Pre-Seed really is. Q: Define Pre-Seed? Or What is Pre-Seed? Pre-Seed is the first institutional capital invested in a company. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? They shouldn’t even be looking for a fully built product.

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82