Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Ian Hathaway and I are hard at work on a book called The Startup Community Way, which is modeled after Eric Ries’ evolution of The Lean Startup to his recent book The Startup Way. The post Innovation and Venture Capital in New Jersey appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. In the past decade, we’ve shifted from a “tell me about it” approach (the business plan) to a “show me” approach (the Lean Startup). Business Model Canvas vs Lean Canvas vs One-Page Lean Startup.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

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.

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MARCH 12, 2014

Gurus wax lyrical about vision and lean, focused execution. It’s a truism in venture capital that startups fail most often not because their product explodes, but because their team implodes. Management books delve into every nook and cranny of strategy and tactics. Their analyses emphasize the rational.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

For a number of years, my partner Jason Mendelson has been teaching an extremely popular course at CU Boulder Law School with Brad Bernthal titled Venture Capital – A 360 Degree Perspective. Reading: The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Ries).

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APRIL 1, 2012

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Josh Lerner: The subtitle summarizes the book nicely - Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed–and What to Do About It. This is a negative leaning book, but there is some positive and constructive stuff in it. Not as good as Book #1.

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JUNE 6, 2012

This has come from many years of seeing “the investor syndicate” make bad decisions either in the case of a successful company (where they don’t lean in) or an unsuccessful company (where everyone keeps dragging each other forward to “one more round.”)

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