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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. Atlassian open-sourced their M&A term sheet , a very aggressive move which helps smooth the M&A process, by reducing the number of degrees of freedom in a negotiation.

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

As such, you should make sure to think of the proposals as an investor and get a reasonable term sheet. Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source. Lean startup (26). But much like becoming a co-founder, getting paid sweat equity is essentially becoming an investor in the company.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. High Quality, and open sourced! Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets!