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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). This means more collaboration with the Fortune 500 and more go-to-market experience as our portfolio companies navigate their path to first customers.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. Just to talk a bit more about this,, I was talking with a VC that you know well about my portfolio company, Chipper Cash. Relatedly, I look at companies like Deciens’ portfolio company, Treasury Prime , or some of its peers and I wonder. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey.

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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

Feld Thoughts

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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