View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.”

Seed Stage 178

Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 178

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. And one last specific practice that came up at this session: feverishaaron : UI, design and programmers are all in the same department, all have the same title, and all are evaluated the same.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

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. Product Development. Market Validation. Founding Team, Key Hires, Advisory Board. Startup Funding'

Angel Investor 55

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Seed Capital Advisory Board 55

Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

You may have gotten through your FFF round without a business plan, but in order to attract seed investors you will need a comprehensive plan complete with extensive market research and a detailed financial model. A fair amount of your FFF funding will likely go towards product development. Market Validation.

Intellectual Property 55

Intellectual Property Advisory Board Startup Seed Capital 55

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Take the market and break it down into smaller chunks. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Product, product, product!

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Compressing the Product Development Cycle. 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. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. Starting now. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

Restful 243

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 243