Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development. The product management process assumes that product/market fit is known, and the products can get spec’d and then implemented in a linear fashion. StageGate Process. This is a big idea.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. Also, an Incubation Radar profile on CrowdEngineering explains more about this very, very cool company doing crowdsourced customer support. The business is already profitable with $2.9

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

There were regular events where experts talked about: fund raising, term sheets, constructing a team, product development, establishing biz dev partners, M&A, dealing with the press, etc. But wait, does that make Launchpad LA an incubator now? There are at least 6 incubators now being set up in LA.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

For a few months, a team of mentors with expertise in sales, financing, business planning, marketing, product development, website design and many other fields will coach an entrepreneur to help create a successful launch and structured plan for future growth.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 6, 2021

2021 is proving to be an incredible year across our portfolio – from big funding announcements to significant product developments. Preemadonna raised over $5M in seed financing. Arweave announced its incubator, the Open Web Foundry. You can read about it in the Globe and Mail. . A strategic $2.7M Stacks 2.0.7

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

They are frequently confused with incubator programs, but the two are technically different. Accelerators focus on early-stage startups, while incubators are geared toward later-stage startups. Incubators. Like accelerators, incubators offer access to office space, contacts, and mentorship. Accelators.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Finance and budgeting. Product development. Queuing theory and product development. For how to manage that see, for instance, Queuing theory and product development or take some time to investigate resource management tools.) A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. Metrics for cyclical businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. On the show I’ll I could get him to talk about was his travels on Air Force One. Wildfire Interactive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Competitors: Gowalla.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This post is intended to be a dynamic document, and I will attempt to update it from time to time with new questions that may arise or as financing trends evolve. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? It’s a legitimate stage of financing in the venture eco-system as of this writing (October 2017).

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aweissman.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Those that worked, we added capacity, services, as needed, thus variablizing the entire product development process. This stack (and I am just listing four pieces) thus supports science entrepreneurs through a set of services that includes research, funding, incubation and experimentation.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

Benchmark Capital and existing investors including Mangrove Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners funded the round for future product development, likely for iPad related Flash content (more here ). Biomedix Incubator Ltd. Biomedix Incubator Ltd. Biomedix Incubator Ltd. Biomedix Incubator Ltd.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2015

An entrepreneur also has to wear many different hats, like needing to sell to customers, even if your main expertise is in technology or finance. And also, there’s a growing number of seed funds, angel investment groups or incubators who are focused on funding early stage entrepreneurs. Build on Expertise.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. 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. (And Third, venture capital has now become Founder-friendly.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? Investors do what their money back.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Great for visualizing work of product development. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *. Eventbrite.

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