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David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. It’s just a story about what happened to me. Are These Your Slides? He said, “Look again.”
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. Oh, and since it was not code compatible with anything, we were going to have to port all the key scientific applications our customers needed (as soon as we figured out who they were.) A few days later Gordon became a founder.
Steve Blank
MAY 21, 2009
Partners Booths While your booth may be small, some of your potential or existing partners may have much larger ones, in much more visible locations. Is the company hosting/co-sponsoring some event? For a small company this is like throwing your tradeshow money on the floor. Plus tips on overall trade show strategy.
Steve Blank
JUNE 22, 2009
Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 24, 2011
My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy.
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