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.
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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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. A seed round can come from friends, family, Kickstarter, angels – and most importantly, early customers. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises. When to raise money.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2013
As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship. Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders.
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. A seed round can come from friends, family, Kickstarter, angels – and most importantly, early customers. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises. When to raise money.
Gust
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
If not, and they have neither savings nor parents to help them out, they need to find a paying gig (either a traditional job, or a revenue-generating lean startup such as Travis Corrigan describes) to fund their living expenses while they get the next startup off the ground working nights and weekends.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 11, 2021
Traditional venture capital models lean into what’s called ‘power laws.’ This is my most significant concern about the wave of mental wellness startups being funded with venture dollars — what happens to the clients of the ones which fail? Photo by Matthew Waring on Unsplash.
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