David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most startups view venture capital funding as a blessing from above — eager to take it as soon as they can get it. Tempted by large sums of money and the perceived validation that comes along with being funded, founders turn to venture capitalists to accelerate their company’s growth. Focus on Product Development First.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

DEIS will present practical solutions for startup teams, accelerators, ecosystem builders, investors, and big tech companies. We chose to do this together right after the election to send a signal around the importance of acting now to actually work together to create change, especially around the economic case for DEI.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

So far it sounded like a fair deal, considering we didn’t yet have a product developed – only a pitch deck, a business plan, a fleshed-out idea, and some user interface (UI) designs of what we thought our online product would look like. Best of luck to you in your startup venture!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. The customers didn’t act particularly excited about the product and how brilliantly I presented it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. my startup is Blank Label (www.blank-label.com), which is a provider of custom dress shirts that empowers consumers to become the designer of their own product.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Once the product begins to ship, startup sales execs use orders and revenue as its marker of progress in understanding customers. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

Incorporate your startup after the business plan, but before you spend a dollar on product development. For example, you and your partner may be perfectly happy with an LLC, but venture capital or Angel investors may insist on having “preferred” stock, forcing an upgrade to a C-Corp.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Scooter-sharing has presented itself as a worthy category to invest in and the attention it has garnered from leading venture capital firms like Sequoia Capital, show that the new frontier in transportation startups might have nothing to do with cars at all. Understanding The Millennial Buying Power.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. 2. -Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Competitors: Gowalla.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Tons of advice is available on how to pitch , present and market your company.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-Up to IPO on Your Terms. This book presents the idea that instead of taking on wildly uncertain ventures, startups can create a system that allows them to test, adapt, and adjust their vision on a continual basis.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Look for some “ skunk works &# project where the product developers are actively seeking alternatives to their own engineering organization. These companies will look at innovative startups to help them gain market share from the incumbent. Whenever he did that most vendors would ignore him in the meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

No board member will truly read and be thoughtful about the entire deck and no team can get through the entire presentation in the meeting. This can include: Fund raising, product development choices, sales, marketing effectiveness, competition, business development, M&A … whatever. There are too many pages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So let’s turn our attention from what may happen in the future to what is definitely happening in the present. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) The Customer Development Venture Pitch At this point I often hear entrepreneurs say, “We don’t have the money to scale. How do we raise the big bucks?”

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure. Over scrambled eggs and diet coke, I listened to this seasoned startup veteran describe the excitement of his students who came to the U.S. to compete.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

« How do you present your venture to an investor? Growth involves, in many businesses, more customer service, product development, support, marketing and so forth – in addition to more R&D. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. April 2013.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Without a crisp analysis of these numbers, investors cannot assess the market opportunity and their potential for making returns.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Without a crisp analysis of these numbers, investors cannot assess the market opportunity and their potential for making returns.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. Professional services such as attorneys, accountants, consultants, and design or product development companies are classic body shop businesses that can’t scale. I was told once that my business was too profitable for VC investment.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

Now is the time to show your support for the innovative and creative thinkers we are lucky to work with at Capital Factory. With your help, they’ll get the opportunity to present their ideas through educational panels, presentations and workshops for attendees to discover at SXSW 2020. Deadline to vote is August 23.

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2015

Ann, who incidentally was mentored by Caroline Cummings, our VP of product development here at Palo Alto Software, also advises thinking about the mentor relationship as that of “a friend who just happens to possess the professional expertise that you desire.”. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

enabling you to expand on an already working business model), and if you’re in the extremely early stages of building your company, you still need to develop your product. Product development. When it comes to product development and marketing in the early stages of your tech startup, funding is optional.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The company’s factory will remain at its present kibbutz location, located near Afula. INDIA AND ISRAEL TO SET UP $40 MILLION FUND FOR JOINT VENTURES. India and Israel recently announced plans to set up a $40 million fund to support joint technological ventures. .”

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. We’ll update this post with links to his further installments. Johnny Good post.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

Prior to starting Ozmo both Ming and I worked in a design house creating new and better products. Throughout my five years of experience in product development, I realized that most of product launch failure could have been avoided by getting the product right earlier on, or understanding the limit of the maker.

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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.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Videos/presentations. Presentation tools. simple way to make timelines for presentations. Great for visualizing work of product development. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â??

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