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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. It included things like advertising, marketing analytics, cyber security.

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

——— Yuri, one of my ex students started a big-data analytics company last year. What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. Some of the engineers figuring if the founder was declaring they were toast in 90 days were updating their resumes. A Pivot a Week. he’d declare. “We

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Less is More, More or Less

Steve Blank

As a founder my first job was Customer Discovery – getting out of the building to listen to customers and see whether our understanding of what problems customers had was correct, and if so whether our product as spec’d would solve that problem. Founder Too. My engineering co-founder and I had a great relationship.

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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs.

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IoT: Bridging the Performance Promise Gap – Female Founder Series

The Startup Magazine

As part of our ongoing Female Founders series , The Startup Magazine asked Terry Foudray, CEO and co-founder of IoT solutions provider, RUMBLE, for her views on the continued digitization of our physical world. She is a strong STEM advocate and an active member of the advisory board for CompTIA ’s Advisory Council.

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Valuing Startup Employee Options

David Teten

It’s very powerful to have a model that you can email to everyone in the firm, because then everyone sees clearly that you’re communicating the exact same message to the whole team (including outside consultants and the advisory board, if any). Vinicius Vacanti and Jim Moran of Yipit had the same experience.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

How to recognize when it’s time to pull the plug on your startup idea, and why founders can’t operate afford to operate in a vacuum were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Dan Miller , co-founder of Level Therapy , provider of mobile therapy sessions. Dan Miller. Brian Zuercher.

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