David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. Originally designed for investment bankers, it’s now also being used by VCs to help portfolio companies with fundraising.”. 10) Report. 11) Exit .

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

We were also arrogant in the sense of we have this idea of how the thing should work and we built it … This was a little bit before Lean Startup was very popular, so we just built this thing that we thought would work and lo and behold, it didn’t work. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. …

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) The McMicking’s bought 50% of Ampex for $365,000 (some liken this to the first VC investment in the valley.) More on this in the next post.

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