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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

This post makes a lot more sense if you look at the earlier posts as well as the video and slides. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building. He was the professor who helped his students Bill Hewlett and David Packard start a company in 1939. In World War II he headed up something called the Harvard Radio Research Lab.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

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. Pay close attention — true motivations are revealed, not declared. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Date first.

Cofounder 101
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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. Add to this that 72.7%

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How to Be an Angel Investor

www.paulgraham.com

But notalways: sometimes the startup cobbles together a syndicate ofinvestors who approach them independently, and the startups lawyersupplies the paperwork. Seven years later I still hadnt started. I put it offbecause it seemed mysterious and complicated. It turns out to be easier than I expected, and also more interesting.