Steve Blank
DECEMBER 10, 2014
We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup. Now the students spend time in customer discovery and learn why validating the business model for their device is so important.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
In my roles as CTO for various startups, its been an interesting repeating cycle for the CTO to have to wear lots of hats especially in the early days: from start-up systems architect to code monkey to development manager to ops manager then finally to CTO as the business scales over time and these roles warrant dedicated full-time staff.
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Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 24, 2018
Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along
Hearpreneur
JULY 30, 2016
The short answer was no and whilst many of the businesses present had a large technology component to their company, with custom developed software etc they could not present themselves as a tech company. All lending companies need to stop being so safe, so repeatable, so traditional and dare one say it male-oriented.
www.instigatorblog.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
A standard programmer who writes “generic&# LAMP or C++ is easily replaceable and therefor warrants little ownership unless finding cash to pay a replacement is tight. Early stage funding often bets subsatntial equity because the founders have liitle choices and thus the worth of the investor is really quite high. This is a great post.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2009
If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? There are two principal reasons why this second approach is better.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. Lastly, I would suggest a range of equity or warrants is offered, vs. a fixed amount. Our model at Casual Corp. Even more importantly: they went through it.
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