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How Do You Want to Spend Your Next 4 Years of Your Life?

Steve Blank

As our Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences class winds down, a good number of the 26 teams are trying to figure out whether they should go forward to turn their class project into a business. Or is it something that can grow to a size that will result in an acquisition or some liquidity event? see 0:30 in the video below).

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The Bend Experience. Build $10-30M funds.

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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

. - You can be an Independent studio or do “work for hire&# (either a revenue share or buy-out model) - If you’re an independent studio you have a set of choices for distribution channel and marketing models. - We understood none of this. More detail in future posts. This post was Twitted by altgate [.]

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

In a Lean Startup , the goal is to preserve your cash until you find a repeatable and scalable business model. How much do they need to own at a liquidity event? You invest the dollars to create end-user demand and drive those customers into your sales channel. When to raise money. What’s a win for them?

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

In a Lean Startup , the goal is to preserve your cash until you find a repeatable and scalable business model. How much do they need to own at a liquidity event? You invest the dollars to create end-user demand and drive those customers into your sales channel. When to raise money. What’s a win for them?

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. Lean Startup Machine. Lean Startups. Roku Channel Store. Codeacademy. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Rand Fishkin.