Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays. In just over a decade, new firms like USV, Foundry, Spark, True Ventures, First Round, Greycroft (I might add Upfront) have made names for themselves from a non-traditional Silicon Valley stance.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

I love the way you differentiate. Reply Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love « Man in the net :: Ontology :: Semantic :: Knowledge , on December 30, 2009 at 1:13 am Said: [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Would you be interested in guest posting? Order Here.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher. But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C. Even more prosaic products are susceptible to all manner of monetization complexity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. It’s how things are done across the country outside of Silicon Valley.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

It’s important moving forward that they expand their reach to other regions (particularly Silicon Valley). At Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY , we’ve seen enormous appetite for angel education among high net worths and family offices. Create a Yale-affiliated angel group, under the university’s official auspices.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2013

But the counterpoint comes from a researcher named Kathleen Eisenhardt at Stanford, who did a study of Silicon Valley firms and found that the firms that considered more options were actually faster for three basic reasons. DH: Exactly, we feel like we don’t have time to consider more options. It’s more work, and it’s slower.

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