Customer Development Liquidity Event Technology 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. While the technology gap is closing, what’s still missing in local regions is early stage capital.
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 1991-2000. The public markets for venture-backed technology stocks never really recovered after the collapse of the dot-com boom. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010. Other VC’s who invest in Information Technology have taken a different approach.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2016
Capital is returned to these investors through liquidity events (originally public offerings, but today mostly acquisitions). Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development. It’s possible that by the end of this decade history might repeat itself in Intel’s most profitable segment.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. That requires building a company using Agile and Customer Development.
Steve Blank
JULY 2, 2009
As Peter began to speak extemporaneously our mouths slowly fell open as he described the video game market, its size, its demographics, the state of the technology, and the state of games. Of course, they could be useful in creating liquidity events, but absent bubbly environment and disrupting marketplace what is the point?
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" How many things on this list require technology? Now we turn it around. For your employees?
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Ad Serving Technology. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. SVPG : They want to share senior level experience and best practices with technology companies. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.
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