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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options. Quick note: I’m not your lawyer. I’m not giving legal advice in this post.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. What accounts for the difference?

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Australia might possibly be one of the worst offenders.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Australia might possibly be one of the worst offenders.