Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I care because by funding a product, you are giving voice to the idea that yes, it probably is necessary—and if we continue to ignore the contributions of women to the entrepreneurial space, we’re essentially concluding that their ideas hold less value. “In According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. when you are just starting, probably no product or service yet. One of the easiest mistake to fix is timing.

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Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 14, 2012

There was an article recently in VentureBeat about how much control the startup CEO founder has over his/her board of directors. Unfortunately, this actually isn’t true in most cases, especially for first time founders, for many reasons. Founder/CEO. at least one Co-Founder. Which ones should be advisors instead?

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Or Yale could develop a legaltech incubation program and to help improve lawyers’ productivity, a profession whose primary tech tool is Microsoft Word. Founder community.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. Now I have.

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 26, 2012

It will include travel, employee issues, hiring, firing, product design, cash burn, a new facility, the next funding round and some client and partner visits. Pay attention when outside mentors magically appear in your circle; I’ve met some of the best advisors at meetups and coffee shops. Or a favorite teacher or professor.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Or maybe your projected earnings were reasonable, but your product demo went horribly wrong. In an angel meeting of 25 people, if one angel says something less than positive about your deal, the excitement drops, and the deal can die right there on the boardroom table. Pitching your product instead of your deal.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with. Startups are hard.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

You go to the site, enter or find the name of their product, and rate its condition. It’s been gratifying for me to visit the Second Rotation facilities and see the multitude of products en route to new owners. I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

You go to the site, enter or find the name of their product, and rate its condition. It’s been gratifying for me to visit the Second Rotation facilities and see the multitude of products en route to new owners. I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Everything now in production is a service, so there are drone services. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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