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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. A bit like Silicon Valley. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data.

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

Startup 2 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and we are going to offer a lower-cost, web-based version. Me –“That’s a great hypothesis, do customers tell you that they’d buy your version if it was cheaper or on the web? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. We’re about to ship next week.”

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. Though technology tools and Web 2.0 Consider this question: what percentage of all books that are purchased does the buyer actually finish reading cover-to-cover? ideas (e.g.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Facebook is another example.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 Title: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. Company : Wesabe.