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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. As it happens almost every few years there was a new normal developing. There is too much capital coming into tech investing. Tech companies generate a lot of buzz.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 29: Ajay Kshatriya and Steven Cohn

Steve Blank

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. Steven : Nope, hubris.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 29: Ajay Kshatriya and Steven Cohn

Steve Blank

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. Steven : Nope, hubris.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

Compressing the Product Development Cycle. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Starting now.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. First, Venture Capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S.

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