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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

A startup in a New Market (enabling customers to do something they never could before,) might be unprofitable for 5 or more years, (hopefully with the traditional hockey stick revenue curve,) while one in an Existing Market might be generating cash in 12-18 months. Even more serious, startups can have radically different cash needs.

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“Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch

Steve Blank

You already have the hockey stick and exponential growth. I’m at jordan.cooper@gmail.com or blogging here: jordancooper.wordpress.com Reply Alain Raynaud , on November 12, 2009 at 4:42 pm Said: Or maybe it’s just the last slide that convinced the VCs. The rest is just fluff. This is my new favorite post on your blog.