Customer Development Developer Seed Capital 
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities.
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View from Seed
DECEMBER 8, 2015
This notion of founder/market fit is incredibly important for pre-product companies who are out raising seed capital or pre-seed (aka genesis rounds) — both of which we invest in. But there’s also a great deal of importance placed on another, more common idea: Product/Market Fit. (If
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. In normal times, when there aren’t dollars to undo mistakes, you use Customer Development to find product-market fit. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises.
Genuine VC
AUGUST 14, 2012
For entrepreneurs, seeking seed capital means meeting with numerous VC firms and sometimes dozens of angels… fun? Telling the same pitch over and over again… taking time away from more immediately impactful endeavors like recruiting and customer development… the endless follow-ups and inevitable radio silence… fun?
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.
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