Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. First, do not hire someone just because they have the domain expertise.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 29, 2018

EVP Head of Global Cities for @ Mastercard and Former CTO of NYC and CIO of SF. Founder of Darren Bates LLC A boutique consulting firm that helps private and public organizations diversify their workforce by outreaching, hiring, retaining, and promoting qualified individuals with disabilities.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020).

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

While the autonomous vehicle industry is still in its infancy, Aurora’s three founders had already established themselves as giants in the field, with each playing key roles at three leading pioneers in the version 1.0 era of autonomous vehicle technology. era of autonomous vehicle development.

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