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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. Coming from an operating role in a company, that can feel odd - that doing nothing is in fact accomplishing your objective - so that takes some getting used to.

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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. These changes fit the needs of the current crisis, but also look forward to a time when consumers will be operating on leaner budgets.

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A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network

Feld Thoughts

As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship. Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders.

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To Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising or to Not Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising? That is the Question.

This is going to be BIG.

Actually, I tend to lean more on the relationship building side, for a couple of reasons. You think you're getting this big fat check compared to the seed money you raised, but they're actually doing something more like dipping their toes in the water. Well, it all depends, right? It's less signal than you think.

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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Time and time again, experts in entrepreneurship and business (often with little to no operating experience of their own) offer formulaic advice on what startups must do to succeed. Myth #2: You need a lot of money to start. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet. image credit: Paul Cross.

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Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

At the same time, the foursquare team was incredibly skilled at applying lean start-up best practices, specifically: Product-obsessed founders : both Dennis and Naveen were consumed with the product. million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last. Monetization.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.