Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. 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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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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. These sources are a lot more forgiving of iterations and pivots than later-stage venture-capital funds. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises. When to raise money.

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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. These sources are a lot more forgiving of iterations and pivots than later-stage venture-capital funds. 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 227

The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

Moreover, the traditional barriers in investing are broken down since anyone with a credit card or an internet connection can become your investor. Lastly, note that using free crowdfunding sites provides an excellent cost-effective solution compared to seed capital or personal loans with high-interest rates.

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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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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

million jobs in the three quarters ended in March, 15% less than in the first three quarters of the last recovery, when investors and entrepreneurs were still digging their way out of the Internet bust. Lack of seed capital (home equity lines of credit, friends/family) is a major problem. (Is

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