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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. He had a track record of taking small teams and growing them into successful product lines.

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people. When starting a business, consider if your product/service has a unique invention that needs to be protected from being copied by others. Secure your intellectual property.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Many would argue that even the most theoretically scalable products in healthcare, i.e by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Fundraising debt.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.

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Picking Ventures: Part 2 - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

.  Tom Perkins, in telling the Tandem Computer story says "when the first product performed as expected, the company went to $100MM very quickly." " We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position.  Will the product work?