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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

just months after it came out of stealth. Israel produced three public cloud companies - Wix, Jfrog and Varonis - representing an aggregated market cap of more than $25b, c. The days where Israel was known only for its cybersecurity entrepreneurs is behind us.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. A nalysis – One of the luxuries of being a VC is that we have a larger data set than most entrepreneurs of performance. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Metrics visible at a glance are number of customer interviews in the current week as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses, mentor and instructor engagements. Lessons Learned.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs. It’s still in stealth but plans to make announcements soon. I know of at least one very clever entrepreneur in New York looking at this space. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs.