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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.

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The evolution of early stage investing in the UK

The Equity Kicker

Two developments have changed the face of startup investing in the UK in recent years. The first development is increased capital efficiency. Forward Partners and Crowdcube are both attacking elements of these problems. Entrepreneurs can now achieve an awful lot with very little money.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . 6) Due diligence. Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. 5) Manage deal flow. See How to Judge Investment Pitches. 7) Negotiate transaction.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . 6) Due diligence. Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. 5) Manage deal flow. See How to Judge Investment Pitches. 7) Negotiate transaction.

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supermac War Story 1: Joining supermac

Steve Blank

Yet two smart VC firms, Sigma and Matrix Partners, realized that somewhere in this mess there was value. When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

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.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

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? Good stuff too.