Business Model Customer Development Entrepreneur Later Stage 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Other Roles in a Startup Generic advice given to entrepreneurs assumes that everyone is going to be the founder/co-founder. Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. By now the company may have found and settled on a repeatable business model.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching but watching them fail from a lack of nerve is tragic. Bob had taken to heart the business model canvas and Customer Development lessons. After a demo and lunch, the VC (who normally did later stage deals) wrote my ex student a check for a seed round.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
For many entrepreneurs “raising money” has replaced “building a sustainable business” as their goal. When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Just as a reminder, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
For many entrepreneurs “raising money” has replaced “building a sustainable business” as their goal. When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Just as a reminder, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) Fourth, in the last decade, corporate investors and hedge funds have jumped into later stage investing with a passion. The founders.
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