Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. Instead, focus on getting them ready for that stage. I was really overwhelmed this time.

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