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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Regional Angel funds that pool investors capital and typically make a one time investment in a startup, sometimes at an early stage but often at a slightly later stage. Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals. Large regionally based early stage funds have mostly failed.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a

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Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 12, 2009 Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program I havent had much time to write lately, and so havent been able to share much about the Lean Startup Workshop series I have been producing with OReilly in their Master Class division. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. Billy Durant - Founder General Motors More in the next posts. There’s the Alfred P. What happened to him?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

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. Why was it ok for you to have no talent but a great idea and label yourself a co-founder of a company but advise against it for anyone else? and Google. Partner up?

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

In order to prevent people from bunching up in the later stages of the work pipeline, those leaders need to be focused on automation and continuous improvement. Between cycles, put some pressure on those later teams to do more with fewer people. Make sure you keep track of whether thats happening. for Harvard Business Revie.