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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.” FIgure out who you are.

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

We’re building the wrong product!” 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’d declare. “We We got to pivot now.” Find a Brainstorm Buddy.

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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. They can be relied on for feedback and initial sales; they’ll tell others about the product and spread the word that the vision is real. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Simple online team or personal kanban board. Great for visualizing work of product development. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? broken vc model. Business Culture. Business Model Canvas. Business plan. Kanbanery â??