Customer Development Naming Technical Cofounder Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2015
My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Taking My Class.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
Your name has come up a lot in that regard. Many investors invest 2-3x more capital than necessary in startups that haven’t reached problem solution fit yet. They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success.
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said.
Hearpreneur
JULY 30, 2016
I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). I would like to see more women come together in the name of innovation, business and artistic expression in a way that we empower one another.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) You may know it by its final name. It still shocks me that marketing people in general don’t want to talk to customers, at all. I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
Edwin: Correct, I fully agree and the name MeetingKing already says that my initial focus definitely was on meetings, right? Now what I’ve found is that especially the larger licenses, 10- and 25-user licenses, in the beginning I lost those customers after a couple of months. But we’re just not going to name them as ideal.
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