Business Model Partner Seed Money Technology 
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 19, 2014
Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. (In ———-. The origin.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. (In ———-. The origin.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 3, 2013
Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 20, 2011
Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. We can all recount horror stories of families and friendships torn apart by money lost on someone else’s speculative dream. Don’t be one.
Steve Blank
APRIL 8, 2010
I thought his technology was was potentially a killer app. He said, “After we graduated we took our great idea, holed up in my apartment and spent months researching and writing a business plan. There must be something really wrong with our business. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money.
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