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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Data Collective has already made 46 investments from its first fund, which it calls “comparable with other seed and early stage funds” (Ocko and Bogue wouldn’t reveal fund size.). Headphones. CrunchBase.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. And that’s very different than a firm where you have an IT team and a Clean Tech Team and a Bio Team or an early stage team and a late stage team.”.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Blame it On Marketing In the next 3-6 months, a new VP of Sales is hired. I think Customer Development (iterative model) helps by putting a strong thought in the mind (at a very early stage) that you could be wrong unless the customer agrees; this helps the mind to be more receptive. innovation. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

If you hire a VP of Sales with the idea that they can do customer discovery you violated the first principle of Customer Development – this isn’t a step the can be outsourced to a non-founder. Hiring a VP of Sales in customer discovery typically sets a startup back. However, your product itself will be doing a lot of the selling.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

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Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). Drowning American. Musings on Life and the American Dream. Skip to primary content.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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Hiring Of all the issues we ran into when we first built our team, hiring was the most critical. So when you first start building your team, the most important hire should be your lead architect. The cliches of hiring the best of the best is as true in Malaysia as it is in the US. Part 1 How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0

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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

The implications for entrepreneurs is that each of these (market risk versus invention risk,) require radically different financing models, a different type of venture investor, different timing for hiring sales and marketing, etc. are much softer and much, much harder to measure (or believe) in a very early stage startup.

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