Hunter Walker
AUGUST 11, 2022
Seed Stage Startups Don’t Hire Fulltime For These Roles, And Certainly Not Senior Hires. But at the same time, for seed stage needs, I’ve generally found they can provide much value ‘on demand’ without having to be caught up on the intricacies of your business.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 22, 2015
Customer development” has become its own skill and body of knowledge, and there are some crucial nuances to understand up front before beginning your customer dev discussions. But for a true seed-stage company or for folks just thinking about companies to start or products to build, I think surveys are generally terrible.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2010
Whether they’re using a formal process to search for a business model like Customer Development or just trial and error, startup founders are intuitively goal-seeking to optimize their business model. The Customer Development model that I write and teach about is the entrepreneur’s version of Boyds’ OODA loop.).
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Now it’s time to set the stage with the early traction you have. Seed stage VCs are realistic about how much traction a very raw company might have. B) Post-Product Companies.
Hippoland
JANUARY 9, 2017
We’ll have challenges around customer development for hardware companies, pre-sales for physical products, and fundraising. Challenges will involve pre-selling, doing fundraising pitches for your company, and getting feedback on your product. 2) It will be more focused. The January event will be focused on hardware companies.
Steve Blank
MAY 12, 2015
The SBIR/STTR program made ~6,200 seed stage investments in 2014, dwarfing the seed investments made by venture capital. The SBIR/STTR program represents a critical source of seed funding for U.S. In fact, half of all seed stages in tech companies in the U.S. Eleven U.S. were funded by the SBIR program.
Steve Blank
APRIL 13, 2013
Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. The Angel/Seed network in Beijing feels fragmented and mostly inexperienced (as are a good number of the China VC’s). Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Liquidity is via IPO’s not buy outs.
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