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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. The time, money and quality dimensions are referred to, in the project management world, as the triple constraints.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

extraneous SHIMMER reference spotted; you are dating yourself eric. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? April 14, 2009 4:03 PM Dave McClure said.

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Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple!

www.mattbartus.com

Client references. Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice. Cooley Report Reviews Second Quarter Venture Capital Financing Trends. A View from the Valley. Blog blog archive.

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

ReadWriteStart

There used to be the Four Horsemen of the IPO world, back in the '80s and '90s. When they exited the scene, the small IPO market followed suit. IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). Number of U.S.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Mega VC has focused on the challenges of the post-SarbOx IPO market in the US, and has discovered opportunity in offering larger amounts of growth capital ($10-100M+) to private companies with reduced access to public markets. (note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley).

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

Many had started IPO’ing and we started to think about our future. Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. Great companies get financed.

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

David Teten

Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. As mentioned above, we report realized multiples (RMs) only for successful startups that were acquired or went through the IPO process.”. However, there is still work to be done. ” .