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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. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money , have 2.9x

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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. Anish Sebastian and Juan-Pablo Segura cofounded Babyscripts in 2013 with the vision that internet enabled medical devices and big data would transform the delivery of pregnancy care. Fundraising debt.

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

Steve Blank

He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.) 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.

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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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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets. For more on this, see The 9 Steps of Using Technology to Improve Investing in Private Companies.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

One of the cofounders has been active on a mailing list for Asterisk , an open-source Linux-based PBX. They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. * They want to build a big brand fast after they come out of stealth mode. * They are actively hiring Perl programmers. on a hosted basis.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Let’s people sell premium digital content online without dealing with any of the technical stuff. They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool. Why do you have to make a company on the latest technology?

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