Customer Development Marketing Seed Capital 
VC Cafe
JULY 26, 2020
Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs. what you think they might need) by talking to customers and testing every aspect of the product features, pricing, etc. Agile Development: launch an MVP early and iterate quickly.
View from Seed
DECEMBER 8, 2015
It’s often a good idea for founders to find a way to build something and get some early market validation before raising outside capital. But doing that is sometimes not practical given your personal runway or because the product you want to build requires additional capital very early on. Is there founder/market fit?
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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.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers?
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. The market was created to provide startups and their investors liquidity. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers?
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. The market was created to provide startups and their investors liquidity. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.
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