Advisory Board Developer Partner Vertical 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. It’s an impressive portfolio.
thebarefootvc
AUGUST 13, 2013
These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe.
Austin Startup
JUNE 27, 2017
Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 17, 2009
Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the Backward Wave Oscillator and Traveling Wave Tube for military applications, Stanford was building tubes and circuits not entire systems. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds
Steve Blank
JUNE 22, 2009
Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) Instead of bemoaning the demise of an old company we should be celebrating new companies that develop new helpful technologies.
pandodaily.com
JULY 18, 2012
That aesthetic took decades to develop. More to the point, the relationships with vendors, know-how of product hunting and credibility in the design world took decades to develop. “It’s about passions, and I didn’t have fully developed passions yet at 21.” “This one is just so much fun.”
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