Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2015
He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
Your name has come up a lot in that regard. Many investors invest 2-3x more capital than necessary in startups that haven’t reached problem solution fit yet. 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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YoungUpstarts
JULY 31, 2019
Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. In these scenarios, most founders will have trouble tapping the institutional Venture Capital market and will have to do a bridge round or multiple bridge rounds. . Fundraising debt.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. So it was from ’91 to ’94 that I programmed. Where do you start?
YoungUpstarts
JULY 13, 2011
Have you ever said to yourself, How in the world did [insert name of powerful business executive] get to where he is? It’s important to remember that achievements are often less dependent on your technical know-how and more dependent on how you organize and think. by Michael Feuer, author of “ The Benevolent Dictator “.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
Edwin: Correct, I fully agree and the name MeetingKing already says that my initial focus definitely was on meetings, right? So if I’m looking, MeetingKing’s obviously a brilliant name. But we’re just not going to name them as ideal. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. Jason: Exactly.
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