Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Set expectations accordingly. Solicit funds from friends and family.

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

why the hell has seed financing declined so much in the past 3 years?? And with so many new funds in the market and looking to put capital to work it’s no surprise that there was an even bigger boom in the numbers of deals being funded in the early-stage markets.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage IPO 328

Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2019

Start Lean. As tempting as it can be to do everything at once, be patient and start lean. . Building a lean business with lean products ensures you don’t pigeon-hole yourself into a situation where you’re unable to back your way out. Most startups fail. This is a fact. It’s easy for one slip-up to snowball into another.

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Burn Rate Startup Lean Early Stage 176

View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Hopefully, by bringing on strong partners early, you will get great advice and support to minimize your overall dilution down the road. They find weak pre-seed investors or angels who are almost predatory in their early stage pricing and add no value. should be avoided. Experienced founders: Consumer.

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Dilution B2B Burn Rate Early Stage 149

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Set expectations accordingly. Solicit funds from friends and family.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Set expectations accordingly. Solicit funds from friends and family.

Product Development 177

Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Early-stage startup.

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Early Stage Seed Stage Angel Investor Silicon Valley 231

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Set expectations accordingly. Solicit funds from friends and family.

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Solicit funds from friends and family.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week. For the past three months, we’ve run an experiment in teaching entrepreneurship. When I realized they were all for our class, I could start to relax.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2019

A startup that begins to generate cash in the early stages of operation will often make the mistake of confusing income with available cash. Early profits should be directed back into your tech startup to boost growth and business stability. Separate Personal and Business Finances. Don’t mix profits and cash.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Finance 112

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. If you are facing any problem you can always check out this: Business Loan vs. Equity Financing. Inception stage.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2021

Central to the allure of a part-time gig is the understanding that if it doesn’t work out – it isn’t as profitable as you hoped it’d be or it isn’t as rewarding as you’d first thought – you have the freedom to abandon it without fear of your finances being seriously hurt. It’s a steep bar for entry but a necessary one.

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.Net Technical Review Early Stage Finance 123

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So super angel and seed funds are proliferating – As a result there has been an explosion in the number of amazing early-stage investors such as Softtech VC , Floodgate , Felicis Ventures , K9 Ventures , OATV , Lowercase Capital , Founder Collective , and many, many more. Staying “lean&# is not an option.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Solicit funds from friends and family.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. Of course we can’t.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For early stage VC ‘s, Syndication is the process of sharing investments with other potential co-investors. These forces result in most early stage rounds being composed of investors that are already hanging around the hoop. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush after all.

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Syndicate Syndication Term Sheet Cofounder 207

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Following is his advice to early stage entrepreneurs for creating structure in their company. Here’s the punchline: if you run your company as if you have closed a VC equity financing round even though you actually closed a convertible debt round, you’ll be in much better shape when it comes time to raise your Series A financing.

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Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage 152

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I wanted to be able to select clients that are a good fit and can benefit from my finance, IT and international experience. As you have a history of building early stage companies, what is the most important thing you tell startup founders? I suggest companies put systems and procedures in place as early as possible.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Founder Due Diligence Early Stage 99

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I wanted to be able to select clients that are a good fit and can benefit from my finance, IT and international experience. As you have a history of building early stage companies, what is the most important thing you tell startup founders? I suggest companies put systems and procedures in place as early as possible.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Founder Due Diligence Early Stage 84

Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

Sometimes founders misapply lean startup methodology. The anxiety is growing so intense that CB Insights is now charging $6,895 for its own “List of Early-Stage Tech Startups Running Out of Cash (Dying).” Or, you feel like you have so much cash that you can afford to burn it until your original idea eventually works.

Startup 78

Startup Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Review 78

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. As an early-stage entrepreneur competing against a vast sea of startups seeking seed funding, first impressions matter a lot.”.

Venture Capital 82

Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2011

financings, IPOs, valuations, and bubbles (or not bubbles). It was with this backdrop that I read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries over the weekend. We spend a lot of time on this at TechStars and you see a lot of the lean startup principles reflected in the stories in Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Entrepreneurship.

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Lean Startup IPO Early Stage 136

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 262

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. Ready to start simplifying? The last two are pretty basic.

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PR Technical Review Seed Stage Design 144

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. But all things are never equal.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Healthcare (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. Early stage Venture Capital for medical device startups has dried up. Venture Capital Issues.

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Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 296

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2022

However, in reality the Metaverse is still in its early stages of development, and yet, we already can see positive examples of its impact. L eanne Eliott-Young ( Institute of Digital Fashion ) commented on how fashion brands leaning in to engage with younger customers Roblox. Into the Metaverse event in London.

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Generative AI Vertical Early Stage PR 89

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

The implications for entrepreneurs is that each of these (market risk versus invention risk,) require radically different financing models, a different type of venture investor, different timing for hiring sales and marketing, etc. are much softer and much, much harder to measure (or believe) in a very early stage startup.

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Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 147

Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Eric Ries , author of The Lean Start-up , puts it best: ‘ The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. And besides, obtaining early-stage investment is no guarantee of success, either. We need to remind would-be entrepreneurs that raising finance is one mere step on the journey rather than a cause for celebration. ??We

Entrepreneur 82

Entrepreneur Technical Review Silicon Valley Lean 82

VC Adventure

APRIL 2, 2020

Anecdotally I’ve heard that early stage valuations are already down 30-50%. It’s early and not clear where this will end up, but I’ll keep my eye on it and will report here what we’re seeing. Funds will smaller portfolios are more likely to be looking at new deals.

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Valuation Portfolio Database Early Stage 118

Up and Running

JULY 28, 2020

Simply put, alternative funding is gaining financing for your company outside of traditional bank loans to gain capital. To help you find the best funding to fit your needs, read on for the top 8 alternative financing options. It encourages lean operations and can help you avoid taking out too much funding early on.

Small Business 118

Small Business SBA Bootstrapping Venture Capital 118

Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. While the posts were theory I was a bit surprised when John Selep , an early-stage investor, approached me and said he was actually using the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) in practice. Here’s John’s story. But the ‘ah-hah!’

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Sacramento Framework Customer Development Lean 308

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

But at least take enough to keep your personal finances straight and separate from your business.”. What do you think are the biggest misconceptions about Millennials and how they handle their finances? I resisted my entrepreneurial leanings early on in the pursuit of security and safety. Bad idea, Rettinger says.

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Management Portfolio Finance Security 189

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

First Round became a very active investor in consumer internet and e-commerce, on a rather lean investment budget, with several notable exits (including Mint.com to Intuit in 2009 for $170M). and no, we didn’t. but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either). Rise of Y Combinator, 1st Branded Entrepreneur Guild.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74