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by Steve Blank
Steve Blank Raising Money Using Customer Development
Getting “funded” is the holy grail for most entrepreneurs. Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail.
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Duration
~7 minutes (7K characters)
Release date
Nov 5, 2009