Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in. 5) liquidate their investment in each company at the highest possible price. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. The process they use to guide their search is customer development. They would: Blog their Customer Development progress as a narrative. Weekly blog of the customer development narrative.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Worries from the garage One of the worries I hear from entrepreneurs (not just my students) is that Customer Development means getting out of the building and sharing what you are working on. In the end, the CEO couldn’t get his board to give us the cash in exchange for the Japanese distribution rights and some equity.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

The process they use to guide that search is "Customer Development" ; and to track their progress startups now have a scorecard to document their week-by-week changes – the business model canvas. They would: Blog their Customer Development progress as a narrative. What Does This Change? We Ran the Experiment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Also included is the incredible Venture Hacks Bible, which is worth the price of admission on its own, and The Entrepreneurs Guide to Customer Development (which I previously reviewed here). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? And theres so much more. Expo SF (May.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

equity debate. Video From Business Of Software 2009: Building Great Software Businesses - OnStartups , August 23, 2010 Of the several conferences I attend or speak each at each year, my favorite is the Business of Software conference organized be Neil Davidson (of Red Gate ) and Joel Spolsky (of Fog Creek ). Developer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. You can see the whole video at the end of this post. Offer equity instead of cash. Expo SF (May.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I worked for a online video tech company and thought that would be the ticket to meeting a tech co-founder but there were 2 problems. I do believe the only reason the developers were willing to work for some equity is because they became friends with us at Hackers and Founders, so that part worked.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. Also how affective are clean, well executed promo videos? As for videos, don’t know – I’ve never created one. hi dan, i would appreciate it if you could help me with some advice… i have recently developed a very unique golf freestyle video and i a wondering how could i turn a video into a product?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah Parsons says, “Start with cheap mockups, wireframes, or even sketches on paper to make sure that your customers are going to want what you build.”. Including software prototypes, MVPs come in many flavors, including: Explainer videos. Building the Minimum Viable Product by Eric Ries [YouTube video]. Wireframes.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. I haven’t looked at the video yet, but I should be able to understand from the headline and get some kind of emotional reaction to the headline. How do you split equity? Edwin: There are a million others. ” Jason: So?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

However, my two initial co-founders were not technical and couldn’t contribute significantly during the initial year plus of development. This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. Keep it coming. link] ??????

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Videos/presentations. Customer service. Use us to power any video chat applications (talkshow, education apps, collaboration, etc). We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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