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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Distribution.

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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

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Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. One of the world's leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries, founder space was ranked number one, the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and entrepreneur magazines.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. It doesn’t. Born Global or Die Local.

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

techcrunch.com

He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). Are angel investors just unwitting philanthropists or legitimate entrepreneurial investors? So which is it? Only they’re not.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

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note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included). These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. Meebo angel investors also include Marc Andreessen and Auren Hoffman. Brands like Samsung, LG, and Dunkin Donuts pay Meebo to advertise to users on our partner sites. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo.