David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.
Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2009
Blog at WordPress.com. The relevant part starts about 4:30 into the video (wait for it to download.) luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. Reply John Muldoon , on July 9, 2009 at 1:52 pm Said: This was really fabulous to watch.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. Most of my research is also relevant to private equity. See How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood. . 3) Raise capital. 6) Due diligence.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. Most of my research is also relevant to private equity. See How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood. . 3) Raise capital. 6) Due diligence.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. It Takes a Village.
David Teten
APRIL 8, 2013
In response, Stefano Bernardi, (Customer Development at Betable and a former VC/500 Startups alum) wrote a thoughtful blog post on the future of Venture Capital. Stefano calls this VC turning into private equity, but I would instead say it’s VC following the same developmental path as PE. But how do they do it?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
After all, before the house of cards inevitably tumbles, private equity investors get a tidy return. Of course this is hindsight-based armchair speculation, easy to do from the comfort of a blog post. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. And it is magic.
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