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Still growing our team

Version One Ventures

We love meeting people who have shown that they can channel their passions into work that is meaningful and impactful to them. These individuals can be entrepreneurs, engineers, PMs, data scientists, designers, creatives, writers, students, etc. Thus, it is important that our new teammate be self-motivated and disciplined.

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

GoodBuzz allows organizers to leverage on various channels – email, social networks, banners, word-of-mouth, etc. The GoodBuzz team currently comprises five people – three software engineers, one marketing manager and an operations officer - and works closely with an advisory board of industry specialists.

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

Steve Blank

He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. Some of the engineers figuring if the founder was declaring they were toast in 90 days were updating their resumes.

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#SMWATX: What I Learned About Marketing On LinkedIn

Austin Startup

I had a hunch that LinkedIn had the potential to be a valuable channel, especially for startups like us (and our startups. 3: LinkedIn articles rank well in search engines, and skimmable listicles are a good format for blog posts. meta) who market to businesses. But, my millennial brain was used to Instagram. Businesspeople are busy!

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What Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle

Steve Blank

You’ll realize you’re ready to exit the Search step when you have customer validation: You’ve found a sales channel that matches how the customer wants to buy and the costs of using that channel are understood. If he already had an advisory board (formal and/or informal), add CEO’s who have been through this phase.

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