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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

Please note that we expect our members to invest at least $25,000/year in early-stage investments, although there is no contractual commitment to do so. The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience. Docphin ( [link] ) is the Bloomberg for doctors.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. OSEO validation in turn makes early-stage startups eligible for a variety of support services and funding options. A rite of passage for many is to go through OSEO , which will analyze and validate a project.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But ultimately great people drive the ideas and Highland Capital is proactive in reaching out to entrepreneurs even at early stages. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. 16:35-19:35).

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Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns and relentlessly direct critiques

Steve Blank

And if we want them to understand what life outside the classroom in an early stage venture will look like, then they need to experience chaos, conflicting data, uncertainty and good-enough decision-making for 10 confusing weeks. Life will be like that – in a startup, you’d either be talking about shutting down or pivoting like mad.”.

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Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns and relentlessly direct critiques

Steve Blank

And if we want them to understand what life outside the classroom in an early stage venture will look like, then they need to experience chaos, conflicting data, uncertainty and good-enough decision-making for 10 confusing weeks. Life will be like that – in a startup, you’d either be talking about shutting down or pivoting like mad.”.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. Your default position should be to consider Europe as your pre-IPO growth story, and Asia only after you’re a high-flying public company.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

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