Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 5, 2010
I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. You can imagine how well that worked. Its trying to do way too many things at once. I think theyve succeeded.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 24, 2019
The reality is that if a founder raised every one of these rounds, and lead investors always got their “target” ownership, the level of dilution would be ridiculous. No good investor would want the founder/CEO of a company to have insufficient ownership by the series A, and every founder I know is sensitive to taking too much dilution.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 12, 2012
from his blog post ) …some civil engineers think the world of project management in their field is ripe for revolution, but do I know enough of them? Here are the details of both of those customer development experiences. I’ve been wrestling with the details of #leanstartup. How many should I talk to?
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? That’s natural. In this particular example, it turned out they were right.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
Unfortunately, this content-less decision-making process is inhibiting the ability of media companies to develop interesting new content at the very time when this supposed expertise should serve as their one true competitive advantage. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. And how could they possibly review a blog?
www.instigatorblog.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Incidentally, for all startup employees (or potential startup employees) I would strongly encourage you to read Chris Dixon’s blog, including this post: The one number you should know about your equity grant. 1% is even less after you factor in dilution. 1% is even less after you factor in dilution.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 15, 2009
In fighting to have developers checking in code dictate production releases, you risk looking unreasonable and diluting a powerful message that everyone should agree on: "small batches of changes that are automatically and continuously tested" June 15, 2009 7:55 PM Matthew D Edwards said.
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