VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. In a capital scarce environment following the Dot Com crash, startups needed to do more with less and survive long enough to generate revenue. Capital resources alone don’t do the trick.

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Lean Seed Capital Startup Burn Rate 214

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. I did my best to capture video and audio; a YouTube playlist and Slideshare slidecast are below: Slides (with audio): 2009 08 19 The Lean Startup TechStars Edition View more presentations from Eric Ries.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

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 a Lean Startup , the goal is to preserve your cash until you find a repeatable and scalable business model. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises. When to raise money.

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 335

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 a Lean Startup , the goal is to preserve your cash until you find a repeatable and scalable business model. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises. When to raise money.

Venture Capital 227

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 227

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. I’m glad to have been part of the team inventing the Lean Startup methodology.

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Restful Silicon Valley San Jose Puerto Rico 247

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor. Warning: Typos, run-on sentences, and crappy formatting.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44