Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Inside the Minds of Top Venture Capitalists: Blogs You Need to Read to Understand How VCs Think. Eric Ries of The Lean Startup has called Andrew Chen’s blog “one of the best entrepreneurship blogs of all time.” This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. andrewchen.co.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. I've been in venture now twice. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. How do you develop power within a venture capital firm? What's the message?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003. Obama’s own campaign used Moneyball and Lean Startup strategies to win the ultra high stakes Presidential Election. Good design is problem solving.”. – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. What’s Moneyball? A ton of stuff.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. We’ll update this post with links to his further installments. Johnny Good post.

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