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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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How to Raise Investment Capital - According to VC Jeff Clavier

ReadWriteStart

Clavier began his presentation at the beginning of a company's lifecycle, asking how many co-founders a startup ought to have. He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. You want to build your own IPO and exit.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned in his business career

The Next Web

In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. You’ve IPOed two companies. Doing an IPO can be a great thing, but there are always consequences.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

He’s considering making me the permanent co-host so if you enjoy any of this episode or want to see me on the show on a more regular basis please Tweet @jason and let him know (he asked for direct feedback). They bought distribution and engineering talent. In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #12: Action-oriented communication

Austin Startup

In the past few weeks, we’ve had our data.world executive team and then leadership team off-site, All-Hands kick-off for the year at the Alamo Drafthouse, Board meeting, and another event I co-host every year outside of data.world. is ubiquitous and portable with mobile phones. Hurt Founder and CEO Bazaarvoice, Inc.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

Mobile News. The company is hiring 300 employees in 2012, particularly software engineers with talent in key areas such as interactive analytics, mobile applications, internet scale distributed systems, high performance graphics, user experience and human oriented design. Small tech firms outpace big counterparts with IPOs.