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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. No need to name names.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

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link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] Ideas are worthless!!! I know, Chris.

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

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Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. A name like 500 Startups says it all. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.