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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Reply links for 2009-09-07 « Blarney Fellow , on September 7, 2009 at 6:10 pm Said: [.]

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The Product Development Model « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Founders can repurchase up to 90% of this ownership via monthly redemption payments starting 12-36 months after investment, determined based on gross revenues and lasting up to a 3x repayment. Versatile is an aggressive user of technology internally to manage the firm and make better investments. . redemption, revenue share, etc.)

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Ardent War Story 6: Listen more, talk less

Steve Blank

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. But there was one fatal flaw.