Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Emma works for a web company that just released an MBA schools report 2012 on distance programs , and her expertise is in education; this article focuses primarily on ed-tech initiatives, but the lessons learned should apply to a much broader range of startups. So, without further introduction, here’s the interesting guest post: .

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. You can reach him at rip[at]techcrunch[dot]com → Learn More.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e., the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these!

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Interesting to see Y Combinator revise funding portion of its program … The YC VC Program – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? Facebook Remains Gaping Hole in Advertising Industry’s Privacy Program | Advertising Age – [link]. 40+ Best Web UI Interface Framework Kits – [link].

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Entrepreneurship: While entrepreneurship classes can sometimes feel outdated and contrived, they can be useful in terms of developing a framework to evaluate the quality of an idea, and then laying out a roadmap to build a business around that idea. Make sure you still pay attention to the overall brand of the MBA program.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

On the first official day of SXSW I’m going to be at the convention center all day until I head over to Capital Factory to kick off the SXSW Startup Crawl ! Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

This approach offers VC’s and Angels a semi-formal framework for measuring progress and offering their guidance in the “search”? Kathryn Gould of Foundation Capital and Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate also want to try it. for a business model. It turns ad hoc startups into strategy-driven startups. 2) Asynchronous Updates.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 16, 2016

I have spent the last few months helping to create and launch the Expa Labs program. To understand how we got to this point its worth taking a step back and looking at the foundation this program was built upon, as well as understand why we build Labs in the first place. I started building the program thinking about first principles.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

McKenna had a brief exchange with a contact who worked at a trading and venture capital firm in February 2020, when cases of the pandemic started to be reported across the U.S., Do employees have access to the programs and files they’ll need to do their work? which gave him the unmistakable impression that disaster was looming.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

In the same way an MBA program teaches a form of management for administering and growing existing businesses, entrepreneurship and venture capital are, together, a form of management for discovering and building new businesses. And this is crucial: enterprises need both. It is the toolkit of the New to Big machine.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well. Likewise, business program must educate marketers to deliver more actionable results (read: less fluffy) that can really drive all the technology work.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I've had the privilege of working not only for investors like Josh Kopelman and Fred Wilson, but for an institutional LP that had been invested in venture capital since 1980. When you tweet that you're researching affiliate marketing programs, front end development frameworks, etc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. Like Chris Dixon I grew up programing. I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We have a myriad of connections to local Venture Capital firms, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and many other important individuals. Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). Advocate for the appropriate use of SAAS, design patterns, frameworks, SOA, ORM, and MVC.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Well of course we’re focusing on this and that, and you can take a lot of times with frameworks or whatever, I say that doesn’t matter. I’m not going to read this to you, but swat, core competence and et cetera, these are ideas and the goal is focus and I really don’t care what framework. What is going well?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. A summary of the show with direct links to a spot you might like to watch is below: 1:00 Welcome everyone to episode 69, season 3 of This Week in Venture Capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” In that sense, you can think of the law as lines of code that make the program we call society work. Remember the scene in The Matrix where Cipher explains reading the program code to Neo? Remember the scene in The Matrix where Cipher explains reading the program code to Neo? Our recent health care reform bill?

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Tapestry is a framework and ritual to help co-founders unite with more intention, alignment, honesty, and resiliency. We were also able to get some amazing newsletter mentions from friends, Venture Capital firms, and other programs and coaches. A thread [link] — Steve Schlafman (@schlaf) February 3, 2021.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Employee option pool: The framework conditions for employee option pools remain a major problem in Germany. The tax framework and valuation issues are particularly complex and not very employee-friendly. Regulatory framework: There are major differences between the U.S. German Startups Association).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

This approach offers VCs and angels a semi-formal framework for measuring progress and offering their guidance in the "search"? Kathryn Gould of Foundation Capital and Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate also want to try it. for a business model. It turns ad hoc startups into strategy-driven startups.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure.

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Who is this Julian Assange guy anyway? Wouln’t you want to have a framework for predicting deal close rate? A “Rich-vs.-King&# Posted on August 16, 2010 by fnazeeri They teach everything else.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’m the founder of LinkedIn and a partner at the venture capital firm, Greylock Partners. The task may be establishing a partnership; it may be selling a product or service; it may be financing a venture. So, the network needs to have a framework to evaluate and establish trust. My name is Reid Hoffman.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Michael Moritz About Venture Capital – crowdspring.co/1kLoGb1. 50 CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2014 – crowdspring.co/1pNq0dx. PHP vs Ruby vs Python: Three Programming Languages in a Nutshell | 1stwebdesigner – crowdspring.co/1nJ16yT. – crowdspring.co/1pM8HcT.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. It is not surprising that this attitude provides a poor framework for hiring decisions. Does this candidate love programming so much that s/he writes code in their spare time? In other contexts, it often makes sense to "staff up" in anticipation of growth.

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VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

We apply ground-breaking technologies, machine learning, modeling and decision-support systems across our proprietary 3i-MIND Framework, making it simple to acquire real-time and comprehensive knowledge even in the most complex of environments. 5) PawsTrail (alpha version).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He’s responsible for science and programs for surface ships, submarines, and undersea weapons with an annual budget of over $300 million per year. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, contracting, policy, and finance support.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on). Reply Steve Blank explains the evolution of Customer Development « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People , on September 7, 2009 at 1:04 pm Said: [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2013

I was really struck thinking about the framework that you guys propose in the book, and that really is the psychological counterpart to this: the pivot decision is often one that has to be made by a team under a lot of stress, under adverse conditions where it seems like every psychological bias in the book seems to get in the way of doing it well.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Four and half years later, we finally know what this means – or at least have a guiding framework as several items still need to be worked out. Most of this funding has gone to university R&D programs, but at least 15% typically goes to start-ups/SMEs.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

1M/1M Program has a bold mission. I had an opportunity to catchup with Sramana and we talked about the program. By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. or decision-making processes (like understanding text and images) without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data.

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