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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. And as good as the Australian angel investors have been, there still is dearth of serious follow-on funding in Australia. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development.

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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

But very little of it is formal, and almost none of it approaches the 50-100x experience level of professional investors. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees. And lacking a board meeting there’s no formal mechanism to get investor advice. There’s a better way.

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Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

But very little of it is formal, and almost none of it approaches the 50-100x experience level of professional investors. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees. And lacking a board meeting there’s no formal mechanism to get investor advice. There’s a better way.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

He was also on the team that wrote the business plan for BlackGirlsCode. In 2014, Business Insider listed Dan as one of the top 46 African Americans in Tech. — Seeking help to cope with the anxiety he developed as Freshsessions was falling apart, Dan tried some web-based mental health practitioners.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

In many ways, good technical co-founders and angel investors are looking for the same thing. You don’t know anyone, you don’t have experience, you don’t have traction and you don’t have investors. More important that you learn Django or whatever advanced web framework your team will be using.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

He was also on the team that wrote the business plan for BlackGirlsCode. In 2014, Business Insider listed Dan as one of the top 46 African Americans in Tech. — Seeking help to cope with the anxiety he developed as Freshsessions was falling apart, Dan tried some web-based mental health practitioners.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage. What is the product?