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Starting Startups - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

How To Change The World » December 14, 2009.   A low burn rate is a pearl of great price.    It provides lots of options that high burn rates take away.    A low burn rate is a pearl of great price.  Managing Company Growth. Starting Startups.

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ProfessorVC: Burn Rate

Professor VC

Wednesday, July 22, 2009. The burn rates of my portfolio companies is certainly top of mind right now, but thats not what this post is about. Well, our VP Operations at Fliqz, Daniel Marcus , dabbles in creating writing and music when not managing our data center. July 28, 2009 5:42 PM. ▼ 2009. (7).

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Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners.

Steve Blank

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. If you can’t find enough paying customers in the Customer Validation step, the model returns you to Customer Discovery to rediscover what you failed to hear or understand the first time through the loop. all while saying “we’ll make it up later.”

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

Professor VC

Ive written previously about Right Side Capital Management (RCSM) , the latest in my post earlier this year, " How Much Diligence is Due. " (Full disclosure: I am an investor and adviser in RCSM.) ► 2009. (7). Well, I think I know the guys that can do it! ► February. (1). Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns?

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

There are so many unknowns at this stage and the only known is that the business model is going to change at least once, or in the current most overused term in the Silicon Valley, there will be a "pivot". If you want to skip to the end of the story, I ended up becoming an adviser and investing in the management company.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

Tuesday, March 10, 2009. ▼ 2009. (7). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Bootstrapping 101. ► February. (1). ► November. (1).

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

Didnt get the chance to ask him if managed to visit Berkeley while he was in town and see the 52-7 whupping that the Buffs took at the hands of Cal. ► 2009. (7). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.