Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
If you’re a venture capitalist … you have limited partners that give you money to invest on their behalf, and you’re responsible for giving them outsize returns. whether that’s partners or employees that you bring on. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Nayeem : (Nods.)
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.
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Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Some of the old-line venture firms have changed their strategy, but some are still locked into last decade’s model while the partners are living off of their management fees and go through cargo cult like rituals.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Says Rohit Bodas, Partner at American Express Ventures , “Our investment strategy does not assume that Amex will want to be the acquirer for any of our portfolio companies.
Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Eric Friedman
JUNE 16, 2016
Feedback: Getting early user and customer feedback from people outside the office. Network: A group of peers to brainstorm, conspire, partner, help, collaborate and vent to. Hearing from real people was my Customer Development Process for Labs, and it felt good to “get outside the building” and talk to prospective “customers”.
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