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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Without those open and yet expert-filled channels, it might have taken me many years more to correct my naivety and fill out my understanding of core topics. .

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. He should make sure that there aren’t other parts of the business model (revenue model, pricing, partners, channel, etc.)

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

Instead, Facebook is the most popular social channel for customer service questions and is used twice as often as Twitter, which is the second most-used social media site. Simon is also an independent company director and has served on a number of advisory boards with technology focused companies in early stage (A or B) funding.

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). A couple of caveats about founders with “ideas.” And what is critical is trust.

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[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

ReadWriteStart

In both physical and Web/mobile channels, earlyvangelists display these common characteristics: They have a problem or need. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates. Web/mobile businesses conduct customer discovery differently from those in the physical channel. They understand they have a problem.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

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