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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. If you can’t see the video of the Protocol One team presenting click here. If you can’t see the Protocol One slides click here. It Started with an Idea.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

They need to get a handle on the customer acquisition strategy and I advised Ram Kumar to utilize the Positioning and Customer Acquisition modules of the 1M/1M premium curriculum to work on it further. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. So, let’s just look back 10 years to the 2011 vintage. Was this a lost decade for venture capital? Source: Cambridge Associates.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. So, let’s just look back 10 years to the 2011 vintage. Was this a lost decade for venture capital? Source: Cambridge Associates.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. So, let’s just look back 10 years to the 2011 vintage. Was this a lost decade for venture capital? Source: Cambridge Associates.

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Why I Worry About Venture-Backed Mental Health & Addiction Startups

Hunter Walker

Which leads us to the fundamental difference between, say, a small self-funded online therapy practice and one that has taken millions of dollars in seed capital: the latter can acquire a larger number of patients much faster using investment dollars for both customer acquisition and to subsidize the economics of serving those clients.

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Entrepreneur Fills a Market Void by Building Female-Focused Co-Working Spaces

Hearpreneur

Since August 2011 we’ve launched 3 locations in San Diego, California and have recently started expanding internationally through a collaborative licensing model. Our vision is to to support over 20,000 women in the launch and growth of their business by 2020. What is a coworking space and how is yours unique?