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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 24: Drew Silverstein and Craig Kanarick

Steve Blank

The two guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show tell it like it really is to navigate the chaos of a startup. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Drew Silverstein.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. For VC’s and entrepreneurs the gold rush to liquidity was on. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age.

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Why We Do What We Do

Babbling VC

Entrepreneurs oftentimes can fairly easily raise money but find it far harder to find customers and scale. Corporates so often try to innovate yet fail and end up buying startups at ridiculously high prices and further, fail miserably at post-merger integration. . now Sapphire Ventures , for being around over 20 years).

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Hot Seat by Dan Shapiro: A Book Every Startup CEO Should Read

Feld Thoughts

Regardless of the number of times you’ve been a startup CEO, from having started ten companies to being an aspiring CEO/founder, you will learn a lot from each of them. We cut a deal in 10 minutes – I offered up a 50/50 merger and Fred suggested he wanted a little more since Return Path had raised 3x the money Veripost had.

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Why We Do What We Do

Babbling VC

Entrepreneurs oftentimes can fairly easily raise money but find it far harder to find customers and scale. Corporates so often try to innovate yet fail and end up buying startups at ridiculously high prices and further, fail miserably at post-merger integration. . now Sapphire Ventures , for being around over 20 years).

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). annual GMV.