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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

— As Selections Committee chair for our Sacramento Angels investor group, I review applications from dozens of startup entrepreneurs looking for investment. Filed under: Customer Development Manifesto , Investment Readiness Level , Venture Capital. Here’s John’s story. This means the IRL is also a Prescriptive tool.

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SXSW Startups: Fantag

Austin Startup

In terms of specific user experience design, we have incorporated best practices in user design and we actively integrated feedback from user testing along the way. Fantag is based in Sacramento. Fantag was started in San Jose and moved to Sacramento to take advantage of this ecosystem. How did your team come together?

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. She was originally a nurse and then she did nonprofit work.

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New Year, New & Improved NextView Accelerator

View from Seed

Our wrap-up day will be hosted in San Francisco and will focus on exposing our geographically diverse teams to the epicenter of venture capital within Silicon Valley. The goal is for our accelerator teams to take advantage of NextView’s national reach and the programming for both events will be designed to do just that. .

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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If you’re in Sacramento, go to the Sacramento Ruby Meetup and go to the San Francisco Ruby Meetup as well. If you’re likely to use Ruby on Rails, find the local Ruby users group monthly meeting. If you’re in New Haven, you may have to go up to Boston. Reply theStartup Weekend Reading #15 | TheStartup.eu