Steve Blank
MARCH 12, 2014
Therefore we needed them to think and learn about two parts of a startup; 1) ideation - how to create new ideas and 2) customer development – how do they test the validity of their idea (is it the right product, customer, channel, pricing, etc.). Hawken students practicing Customer Discovery in a mall.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. .
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. .
Steve Blank
JUNE 6, 2016
This is (why it’s important to have) a cohesive board and a cohesive investors’ syndicate because the investors sit on the board of the company and make the company work. Filed under: Customer Development. Evangelos : You need to be able to change people, you need to be able to put the right people in the right role.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. It can help develop applications for the startup’s technology in its early days. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. And this was a huge product, which took years to develop.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce. HOF Capital is currently developing a proprietary sourcing tool to automatically filter for potential deal prospects that fit our criteria. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV).
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