David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months. Customer Development.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company.

Lean 304

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 304

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Fast forward to today. We can adapt these startup tools for use inside the corporation. Lessons Learned.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. While it doesn’t eliminate great investor judgment, pattern recognition skills and mentoring, we’ve developed an Investment Readiness Level tool that fills in these missing pieces. Here’s John’s story. But the ‘ah-hah!’

Sacramento 312

Sacramento Framework Customer Development Lean 312

View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

We have a bias towards very early stage investing for a bunch of reasons, but it’s not easy. It’s often a good idea for founders to find a way to build something and get some early market validation before raising outside capital. I think this stage, more than others, is very dependent on the individual investor.

Product 120

Product Startup Early Stage Seed Capital 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? But all things are never equal.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support. This quick and dirty development results in software that can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. Lessons Learned.

Incubator 317

Incubator Curation Engineer Government 317