Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
I would say the norm for many early-stage companies is somewhere between 6-10 in-person meetings per year. The earlier stage the more likely it is 10 meetings and the later stage the more likely it is 6. The Agile Board. Ask for short conference calls. Don’t have calls for calls sake. Have topics.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee.
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Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
Fourth, in the last decade, corporate investors and hedge funds have jumped into later stage investing with a passion. Their need to get into high-profile deals has driven late-stage valuations into unicorn territory. Founder-friendly became a competitive advantage for his firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); And in later stage rounds an explosion of corporate VCs and hedge funds now want in to the next unicorns.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. This is actually a hard case to make, because most of the benefits of small batches are counter-intuitive. Small batches mean faster feedback. Expo SF (May.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 30, 2019
This solution is a philosophy, and this philosophy is AGILE. Agile is a manifesto that has been put forth by a bunch of people and to implement it. Moreover, scrum and agile aren’t the same thing. Each sprint is reviewed to minimize the errors so that the confusions during the later stages are avoided.
Up and Running
AUGUST 19, 2014
For example, one of the angels I pitched to cared deeply about our competitive landscape, whereas another wasn’t too concerned about the competitive landscape, he was more interested in our financial assumptions and my team’s ability to implement in an agile fashion. Angels vs. venture capitalists. 51 percent).
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