Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. This is actually the norm.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns. Silicon Valley firms also did many non-tech deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again. Right sized : I tried to work with one of the best known firms in Silicon Valley. He’s totally tapped into the startup communities in Silicon Valley and a bit in LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. Most people think that being a successful investor is about finding the right deals and nurturing the teams through the difficult times to come out with a great company. He’s backed so many of the Silicon Valley’s young elite tech professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs. I believe AngelList is capable of managing deal flow by acting as a filter. I personally like meeting teams very early on and wish I could get more proprietary deal flow from it.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

5% of the company at the pointwhere it IPOs, and you are very happy because your $50,000 hasbecome $5 million. [ Deal Flow Of course the question of how to choose startups presumes youhave startups to choose between. At the extreme, for someone like RonConway, it is basically identical with the deal flow of the wholeValley.

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