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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Larry had the DNA I’ve seen common with all the successful entrepreneurs I’ve backed in my 25 years of Venture Capital work—only he had a more exaggerated case than most. Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. non-public technology. technology, business information. _. new technology. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital. Intellectual Property. Inventions.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Ed Sim, Boldstart Ventures. Amara’s Law : “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”. Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue.

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What is the biggest enemy of a startup?

K9 Ventures

Figuring out who you’re going to sell your product to, and building the distribution for it also takes time. The architecture and technology will have to evolve over time. Most early stage companies will go through a growth/maturation process that helps to figure out the ultimate product?—?the

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. The first goal was rooted in childhood – I grew up playing with technology and it has always been my passion. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks.

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The future of service marketplaces is AI

VC Cafe

Every industry that requires humans to create original work—from social media to gaming, advertising to architecture, coding to graphic design, product design to law, marketing to sales—is up for reinvention. As marketplaces transformed the way we buy goods online, technology is about to do the same to service market. AI hype cycle.