Customer Development Deal Flow Technical Review 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). 5) Manage deal flow.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). 5) Manage deal flow.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.
David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
I recommend building a strong internal tech stack, to handle the deluge of requests for help you’ll get from companies as you scale. For technology vendors and models, see Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments. . Customer Development. Disadvantages.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. And so professional angels that have access to real deal flow?
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills.
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