Customer Development Equity Partner Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
customer development. Some general customer development slides click here. Called “ How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad ,” it walks you through the Business Model Canvas and an overview of the customer development process. Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. agile engineering.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 20, 2014
When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Silicon Valley Transplants.
Steve Blank
JULY 2, 2015
My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. Listen to my entire chat with John.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
A few foreign VC firms like IDG Capital Partners entered China in the early 1990s. Fast forward a decade, today the Private Equity and Venture Capital business is booming in China with over 1000 firms actively investing. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. It went bankrupt in 1997.).
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 30, 2014
However, one of the bottlenecks in actually doing Customer Discovery for medical devices/health care is testing how minimal viable products work in-context. Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
A few foreign VC firms like IDG Capital Partners entered China in the early 1990s. Fast forward a decade, today the Private Equity and Venture Capital business is booming in China with over 1000 firms actively investing. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. It went bankrupt in 1997.).
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