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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

The term sheets of good corporate investors reflect the venture capital industry standards and don’t require special treatment like first right of refusal in case of a sale or operating agreements with their parent company’s divisions. Could they excel at customer development with enterprises? Are they good sales people?

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. WSGR Term Sheet Generator. Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Customer Development. Roku Channel Store. Seed Term Sheet. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources.