Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. Steven : Nope, hubris. Ajay : You got it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US. 10x the experience.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The most important principle of startup fundraising that every entrepreneur needs to know is: raise enough capital to achieve a set of milestones that will allow the company to attract the next round of investment. Founding Team, Key Hires, Advisory Board. You can also bring these skillsets to the organization via a board of advisors.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

Most businesses – online or offline, need seed capital to get established and without access to these funds, launching a business can seem like an improbable dream. To do this, you will need to invest money in hiring programmers who can build and maintain the app. That seems like a lot of capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Investors bet that by offering prospective hires a stake in the company’s future growth- with a visible time horizon of a payoff – employees would act more like owners and work harder– and that would align employee interests with the investor interests. It’s called Growth capital. And the bet worked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. These quotes are, as is my custom, straight from twitter. When they could hear the customers complaints in their own voice, it became clear when it was time to up the quality level.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Founding Team, Key Hires, Advisory Board. Seed investors heavily weigh the importance of the startup team when evaluating an investment opportunity. If you cannot afford to hire the individuals with key expertise you may need to bring them on as co-founders with an equity stake or hire a part-time, interim individual or company.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 24, 2018

If you follow the writings regarding the Austin ecosystem you’ve probably read debates about the absence of capital. Some founders argue that Austin lacks seed capital, most participants agree that there is a lack of later stage capital. Most investing is local, most hiring is local, but very little buying is local.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business. .

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

We are happy to speak with you at any revenue level, but somewhere in the $150k-range is when founders may start to look for seed capital. Their customers demand a certain kind of return – one that can only be achieved by looking for businesses that have the potential to provide a 100x or 1000x return on their investment.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Talk to your customers.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. THIS is why customers will care.” Why will your customers care about your company? “THIS is why we exist. THIS is what we aim to solve.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Here they’re already carrying a bag with products from many vendors so while there at the customer they just have to mention your product and budda bing. You decide to go out and hire a sales rep. The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

This is doing right by both your company and your customers. You tend to hit goals you articulate, and everyone — from investors to co-founders to executives to new hires — want to know you’re setting clear (if ambitious) goals and thinking about this challenge. You can find those here. ). You can find those here. ).

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. That’s no longer the case. The founders.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. As a SaaS company, we have had pretty good success in acquiring new customers for our business using various techniques: organic traffic, paid ads, email marketing, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, we actually took the original live customer application, converting their live video dating application. But I think the, I just quickly adapted and I realized it wasn't just about writing software, things like customer service, marketing growth, those ideas were. We had to raise some seed capital. So, people default.

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