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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. Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 The Bend Experience. Build $10-30M funds.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. I would put my firm, GRP Partners in with the group working with teams in different ways. Maybe Micro VCs will get larger and emulate a multiple-partner strategy like True Ventures or First Round Capital. They should start “lean.&#