SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. The finance system didn’t talk to the sales system which didn’t know the manufacturing system even existed. All the Data and Not a Drop to Think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Compounding is not a process that most people find intuitive, and thats as true in engineering as it is in finance, so it requires a lot of encouragement in the early days to stay the course. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Cost and time are effectively absolutes (The Caretaker's high finance schenanigans and 20th century Physics aside). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

In fact, this crisis was at the heart of Steve Blank ’s original impetus to develop customer development as an alternative set of milestones to use for startups.) The course does not examine financing options or the composition of founding teams. I also frequently see the reverse. The class debuts in a few weeks.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

She and her team ran a successful Kickstarter campaign, went through the Techstars Boulder 2015 accelerator program, and recently closed a $3 million financing round with The Foundry Group. . Filed under: Customer Development. Jacqueline Ros left a teaching job to found Revolar.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The livestream will let you see all of the events in the Masonic Theater in San Francisco on Monday and Tues. During lunch, you can sample some of San Francisco’s famous food truck culture from trucks we’ve invited especially for the conference.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco. The first limited partnership that lasted for a while was formed by Davis and Rock in 1961.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

She and her team ran a successful Kickstarter campaign, went through the Techstars Boulder 2015 accelerator program, and recently closed a $3 million financing round with The Foundry Group. . Filed under: Customer Development. Jacqueline Ros left a teaching job to found Revolar.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

This is why so many small businesses can be financed with simple bank loans; the level of risk and uncertainty is well enough understood that a reasonably intelligent loan officer can assess its prospects. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ▼ June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. Silicon Valley’s development is intimately entwined with the long history of industrialization and innovation in the larger San Francisco Bay Area. What is customer development?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. 2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. Hey Dan, I was at your presentation in San Francisco, and you called that 1.7

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

There’s some fantastic producers in terms of who the output of those accelerators and incubators have been in Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco. They never worked with the startup who had needed to raise multiple rounds of financing. You need to go out and do some customer development. Taste the product.

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