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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1

Steve Blank

Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. Below is the first of her three-part series. —- At least a few times a month, people looking to jump ask about my transition, which has led to me consolidating my answers below. It wasn’t a big jump.

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You Negotiate Commodities, But You Seize Opportunities

Steve Blank

Advisory Board. At one of our initial board meetings we had agreed on the general principle of an advisory board and put together an overall stock budget to compensate advisors. Over the next week we exchanged emails over advisory board stock. He was having too much fun at Sun and turned me down.).

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo!

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Marketing Intern. How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Employees.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. First check to seed?—?congrats

Stealth 79
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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Advisory Board. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

I use the word natural deliberately because it is far easier to build solutions that will offer network effects if your market is actually wired that way. In Bazaarvoice’s case, the market was, fortunately, wired for brands and retailers to collaborate in a kind of grand bargain. The retailers were to provide the audience?—?and