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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners.

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The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

Both Sides of the Table

This is the final part of a 3-part series on the major changes in the structure of the software & the venture capital industries. The opportunities for tech startups today are more immense than they’ve ever been with billions of people now connected to the Internet nearly all the time. The Coming Brick Wall.

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10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

Startup Professionals Musings

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. According to a well-researched Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years.

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Raising venture capital in down market?

VC Cafe

Venture capital is down 36% globally QoQ and a lot of startups face an uncertain future. The nature of venture capital cycles. Venture capital is cyclical in nature, meaning that there are ups and downs in the market. In a down market, it can be more difficult to raise venture capital.

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

(Researchers believe this tipping point is result of the complex interactions between the neural network architecture and the massive amounts of training data it has been exposed to – essentially everything that was on the Internet as of September 2021.) and watched as new industries, markets and customers created literally overnight.

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Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

SoCal CTO

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

Jason does an excellent job explaining the math behind more complex subscription forecasting, but also touches on topics like marketing and company culture. Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. Interested in venture capital investment?