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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. Wondering how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so. If you can’t see the video of the Protocol One team presenting click here. It Started with an Idea.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

ReadWriteStart

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. I liked this venture very much and see the basic framework of using the Indian cost structure to provide SaaS products that are competitive in terms of performance and functionality at drastically lower prices as a massive opportunity for Indian entrepreneurs to go after.

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

ReadWriteStart

Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? 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.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? 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.

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The Best Books for Marketers (New and Old)

ConversionXL

In Hooked , Eyal explores the “Hook Model” framework, a four-step process used by some of the most well-known companies and products today. pic.twitter.com/LKVk6gx1d5 — Pe:p Laja (@peeplaja) December 18, 2020. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011). Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy (2020).

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? 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.

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