Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? What the winners start with is the realization that in a world of continuous disruption, they have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink. Is it that some CEOs are better than others? Are their people smarter?

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

RunTitle, an online title search marketplace geared to the oil and gas industry, has landed $4 million in Series A venture capital led by Austin Ventures. The Houston-based startup also relocated to Austin as a condition of the financing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. This was exactly what I was searching for.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. Luckily in the last quarter of the 20 th century a new source of money called risk capital emerged. At its core Venture Capital is nothing more than a small portion of the Private Equity financial asset class. ——-.

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David Teten

JUNE 25, 2012

After some (intern) hours searching for a program that eases this transition, I have to admit that there doesn’t seem to be a satisfactory market solution. I see 2 ways to build this: a) You can start your own company and build this product, and self-fund. b) ff Venture Capital might invest in a startup to do this.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

A startup called Corpora made headlines for all the wrong reasons after tech bloggers ran an image search to find the company logo. However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising. or raised tens of millions in venture capital.

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David Teten

JUNE 25, 2012

After some (intern) hours searching for a program that eases this transition, I have to admit that there doesn’t seem to be a satisfactory market solution. I see 2 ways to build this: a) You can start your own company and build this product, and self-fund. b) ff Venture Capital might invest in a startup to do this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category. Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Most importantly, the phrase “ bootstrapping a startup ” translates into “growing your business with little or no venture capital or outside investment. It is also important to realize that, statistically speaking, most startups become operational without any venture capital or external funding sources. Final thoughts.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

Marketing the site and creating a business behind the product proved much more challenging. To thrust our venture forward, gain business skills quickly, and increase our chances of raising capital, we searched for an accelerator program. When we finish the program we will still retain our relationship with JFE.

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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. Eric, I landed upon your blog when I was searching for the path to CTO a couple of months back and I have been a frequent to the site since then.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. Patent Search. He calls this “the secret of the market.”.

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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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In hindsight it appeared clear that startups that survive the first few tough years do not follow the traditional product-centric launch model espoused by product managers or the venture capital community. But it is life and death for a new venture. It is the path that is hidden in plain sight.

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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 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.) Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

There are hundreds of resources online, but searching for worthwhile sites is time consuming and sometimes unsuccessful. Product development. If you need a little help with your product development and getting it on store shelves, you can check out Edison Nation. They can help with development and licensing, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

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. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot? Is that good? Though technology tools and Web 2.0 ideas (e.g.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Only talking to real-life people will help you figure out whether you’ve got a good product, or just a solution in search of a problem, or a product in search of a market. We went door to door and even rented a kiosk in the mall to get feedback to see if people would use a product like ours. venture capital.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Great post!

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 16, 2015

In the first couple of months the focus should be on making sure the idea is valid, requiring the following activities: Development of the company vision and strategy. Search for a point of deep emotional resonance with customers – research work. First iteration of the product vision. First iteration of company messaging.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Jason: Well, look, nobody sits around and goes man, I wish my meetings were too productive. Edwin: I do get a lot of searches for that, by the way. Edwin: I know.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers. There are 110,000 monthly search queries looking for "stretch mark(s) removal."

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers. There are 110,000 monthly search queries looking for "stretch mark(s) removal."

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Growth involves, in many businesses, more customer service, product development, support, marketing and so forth – in addition to more R&D. By the time we were done, we proved the model and gained enough new business that we didn’t need venture capital for almost a decade. TrackBack URL for this entry: [link].

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Ever try searching for someone with a common name in Facebook? I can already do that search in Gmail, so why then should I have the last 5 years of my friendship with someone, and all the various different conversations I’ve had with them, all in one long thread. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Do you even check that?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

To see what I mean, take a look at the blog posts and videos available at Gust.com, and do a web search for AngelList. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. What we do at the Willamette Angel Conference is the rule, not the exception. I was told once that my business was too profitable for VC investment.

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2015

Where to start your search: Look to your own network first. My search criteria is simple: If you are here to teach me, I’m here to learn,” he says. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. See Also When Ice.com—a Top 500 Internet Retailer—Uses Mentors, You Should Too. To answer the question of “How do I find a mentor?”

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

Last night, Bob Zieserl, Venture Capitalist, and general partner at Stratus Ventures, was the keynote speaker at the Marquette University Business Plan Competition. "Over the last twenty years, 11,000 companies have had Venture Capital investments. The product development cycle was excellent.

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David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development. We aim to focus our operational involvement on finding the product-market fit. Angel investing Portfolio Operations Venture Capital' Thanks again!

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David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development. We aim to focus our operational involvement on finding the product-market fit. Angel investing Portfolio Operations Venture Capital' Thanks again!

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Measuring the efficacy of their divine wisdom at 100 different places in your customer flow funnel can often prove to be controversial, and it can produce friction between the marketing department, who often owns customer optimization, and product development, which owns design. Video: Learn more about Sailthru. 71 Things to A/B Test.

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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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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. It became very hard to get businesses to adopt new stuff.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

The reasons why I am not a big fan of development shops are too numerous to go into here. In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product.

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