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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Designed by the Navy’s OPS-20-G team and built at National Cash Register (NCR) in Dayton, this same Computing Machine Lab would build ~25 other types of electromechanical and optical machines , some the size of a room with 3,500 tubes , to assist in breaking Japanese and German codes. Why Minneapolis/St. Serendipity came to Minneapolis-St.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

There is one source that was always problematic for me – intros from investment bankers. This is no criticism of the investment banking industry (although I’m sure some will read it this way) for which there are very useful purposes. They are venture bankers not investment bankers.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers. This is no criticism of the investment banking industry (although I’m sure some will read it this way) for which there are very useful purposes. They are venture bankers not investment bankers. Big difference.].

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

This client saw that our platform could meet many of their knowledge management needs, in addition to allowing them to custom design tombstones for proposals. Relating these two qualities to the encounter I had with our client CIO, it points to the benefits of a hybrid build/buy decision.

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How I Got My First Customer: I Networked From the Very Start

Up and Running

Alan at NewMedia Website Design : “When we started NewMedia Website Design we decided to work for free… That is, to do some free sites for influential people in the book biz, as well as for people we have known for years and years. Get them invested early so they will say ‘yes’ when you ask them to mention it later.”.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

You might hire a really amazing designer, and perhaps even charge companies for their service for cost recovery purposes. However, the designer is a non-scaleable service; you’ll have to hire more people like her as your portfolio grows. . John Maeda, formerly Design Partner, KPCB; formerly President of Rhode Island School of Design.

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How to Raise Investment Capital - According to VC Jeff Clavier

ReadWriteStart

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. How to Hack the Investment World. Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. Think about when LinkedIn went public.