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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. You didn’t join startups then.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” .

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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

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The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. The upshot of all of this is that today’s startups can concentrate maximum time and resources addressing the problems they set out to solve. I’ve been sent a random email from someone who is “founding” a business, who needs a technical co-founder.”.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. For more, see the Startup Studio Playbook.

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

(I am often asked to explain how to apply Lean Startup approaches to domains beyond software. On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. And, as a result, more and more companies are able to benefit from Lean Startup practices.

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Startup Tools

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Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.