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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

I use the Investment Readiness Level as part of my sessions to help the students understand that being ready for investment means that besides having a pretty PowerPoint, they need to do real work and show Customer Development progress. Since I began incorporating the Investment Readiness Level framework I’ve made three observations.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan

Steve Blank

Everyone I met in this program “gets” the principles of Agile, Lean and Customer Development big time. You see it in the existing angel groups and VC’s. The Center for Entrepreneurship in the Engineering School is akin to Stanford’s STVP program. It offers 35 entrepreneurship courses.

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