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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The) first thing was I wanted to be a land developer because I wanted to be my own builder. What did I know about land development? I’m not getting paid like an investment banker. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. I get bored really easy. … (so) I just start new things.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

We were probably a little bit arrogant in our thinking of what we could create and how we could lead developers to create these ideas that we have. — Right out of college, Dave chased a dream of being rich, becoming an investment banker. We were both non-technical co-founders so that had its own challenges. Wayne : No.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

In fact, this crisis was at the heart of Steve Blank ’s original impetus to develop customer development as an alternative set of milestones to use for startups.) Back in my IMVU days, I met with an investment banker who wanted to help us understand the M&A landscape. I also frequently see the reverse.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It took too long to develop and … it really wasn’t ubiquitously accessible. Out of college, he briefly worked as an investment banker in New York, but before long heard the siren song from Silicon Valley. I schlepped two of our most senior developers on an airplane. I was 22, 23 at that time.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Arthur Rock, an investment banker at Hayden Stone in New York (who helped broker the financing of Fairchild) moved out to San Francisco in 1961 and partnered with Tommy Davis. Davis (an ex- WWII OSS agent) then a VP at the Kern Land Company got involved with investing in technology companies through Fred Terman.

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