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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Chill Direct: Direct to fan content distribution. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature. Scanadu: Technologically-savvy healthcare.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) How to have good startup? [.]