Neon, the Carnegie Mellon University startup that uses cognitive neuroscience to improve online video clicks, has secured venture capital (VC) funding in a Series Seed round led by True Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Silicon Valley-based firms Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and XSeed Capital, and entrepreneur Steve Blank also participated. …read more
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Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working
To begin his talk at the Startup Village at South By Southwest, Steve Blank played a clip from Bravo’s reality show “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.” Ben and Hermione Way, two aspiring entrepreneurs who haven’t built a product or previously founded any companies, pitch investor Dave McClure. When McClure gently grabs the computer and runs through their pitch deck on his own, Way complains to the camera, “I found it slightly disrespectful, him just going through the whole thing and making his own judgments.” …read more
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Getting the most out of “Getting out of the Building”
By Todd Warren, Contributor A key tenet of Steve Blank’s Customer Development approach is to engage with customers. It’s a concept we fully embrace as part of teaching NUvention Web at Northwestern. In student teams, fledgling startups, and mature companies, it’s too easy for teams to become stuck in the echo chamber of their own thoughts and biases. But how do you engage with customers effectively? How is this engagement different at different points in the product development and introduction journey? And who on the team should get out of the building?
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