Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

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.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

Oakland 329

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology.

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. For example, in my work with MBA’s who want to go into software entrepreneurship, I often encourage them to learn how to program.

Silicon Valley 167

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Investment Bankers 167

The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

We have the coolest angel investors in the world, but still our seed funding round (which was not even astronomically big) took us about six months to arrange. Most of this time was wasted on going back and forth between our lawyer and investor and discussing all kind of legal matters involving highly unlikely scenarios.

Netherlands 159

Netherlands Technical Review Software Review Cofounder 159

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. Developer.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. If there ever was any question about the value of China’s Torch Program walk around Zhongguancun. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

Silicon Valley 272

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 272

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. The process they use to guide their search is customer development. Yet even with all these tools, early stage startups still need to physically meet with advisors and investors. Victor Hugo. 4) Geography.

Silicon Valley 289

Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital 289

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. If there ever was any question about the value of China’s Torch Program walk around Zhongguancun. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 164

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. It’s more reference material.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

David Lerner is an entrepreneur, angel investor and director of entrepreneurship at Columbia University. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explore the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. Dave Lerner.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Silicon Valley New York 120

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

One other note—we’re introducing a special scholarship program to bring non-profit organizations’ staff and volunteers to the conference in December. Akash is a business lead for Kiva ’s pilot program Kiva Zip, which seeks to make microlending even more direct—for example, by facilitating payment via mobile.

Lean 167

Lean San Francisco Metrics Angel Investor 167

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Angel Investors. Women’s Capital Connection: Changing The Face Of Angel Investing (Women Angel Investors). Acquisition. Debriefing.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

Cofounder 149

Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 149

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

The process they use to guide that search is "Customer Development" ; and to track their progress startups now have a scorecard to document their week-by-week changes – the business model canvas. Yet even with all these tools, early stage startups still need to physically meet with advisors and investors.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Startup Early Stage Business Model 118

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco.

Silicon Valley 129

Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 129

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

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. In a way it did this, but the opportunities didn't really come until nearly 3 months into the program.

Cofounder 43

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Ruby 43

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

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?

Technical Cofounder 42

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m learning how to program. Has anyone found a referral program system that works great to generate new customers? Your existing customers are you best source of referals – just ask. How I can find the right investor (software)? investors like great companies, that’s really the filter. A few nuggets.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Venture Hacks Angel List â?? raise money with angel investors. Guide to Super Angels -Â Chubby Brain. Tnufa – Startup Promotion Program (Hebr. Customer Development.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application. I have had a programming job and tried to do side projects after work/ weekends.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51