Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

You are particularly vulnerable if: You have revenue concentration (few customers each providing a large total of percentage of your revenue). You have a large number of startup customers (because when markets crash they have a funny way of going bankrupt quickly or cutting burn precipitously).

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming. Crowdfunding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

New investors hate down rounds. customers who paid for services often get burned. I’m looking for ones that understand that in order to build huge, meaningful companies they’ll need to likely build through these boom years and some lean ones. If you are interested the Vimeo is here. That’s a fact.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Building Loyalty The Lady Gaga Way: Focus On 1% Of Your Customers | Forbes – [link]. How a 1-Page Business Model Will – and Won’t–Help Your Lean Startup | by Kevin Dewalt – [link]. Building Loyalty The Lady Gaga Way: Focus On 1% Of Your Customers | Forbes – [link]. ” – [link]. ” [link].

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 22, 2014

You fall into the spiral of death: head of sales gets replaced (at least once), CEO gets replaced (at least once), a down-round financing happens (if lucky). As we’ve written before, sometimes it just takes time to find product/market fit, or climb the sales learning curve.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. And then how would you prompt other entrepreneurial leaders to think more broadly about stakeholders than even just investors, employees, customers, which tends to be the typical trifecta? BC: Exactly, Reid.

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