Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The Investment Readiness Level (IRL) The collective wisdom of venture investors (including angel investors, and venture capitalists) over the past decades has been mostly subjective. We propose we can do the same for new ventures – provide a simple and visual way to share a common understanding of startup readiness status.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

After selling my first company, I’d invested as an angel investor in a bunch of companies, was a non-executive Chairman / co-founder of a few, and had lots of ideas for new things to do. The two week trips turned into three week trips and we ultimately bought a house in Homer in 2002. Life alaska anchorage homer'

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Angel Investors Must Be Organized. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community.

Community 142

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

I was making plenty of money consulting and, while I was investing much of the money I made from the sale into new companies as an angel investor, the idea of living in Homer was attractive. When Amy and I talked about “what’s next” when I was 29.5

Alaska 166

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Bryce Dot VC

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Back in 2002 I was a nobody analyst at a small Salt Lake City VC firm most people had never heard of. At that point, Brett had transitioned out of a day to day operating roles and was a full time dad and angel investor. That year my boss introduced me to his former boss at Excite, Brett Bullington.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I sold the first company I founded, a computer technology integrator, to private equity in 2002. The Angel of Death. I called myself an angel investor. That’s when I realized I sucked at being an angel investor. That’s when I knew I was really the angel of death. Here’s the problem.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Otherwise, for those yet-another-facebook-type social web apps, just hire competent programmers and give them salary and perks that normal professionals expect, and not hope that their compulsion covers for your managerial incompetence and angel investor micromanaging idiocy. Fred Bosick. March 26, 2011 at 3:03 pm. [.] Michael Chan.

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