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Learning from the High Flyers, Part Two

Growthink Blog

Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. Like Uber raising $8.7 billion over 7 years. Or Airbnb raising $2.3 billion over 8. Or Dropbox raising $607 million over 9. They keep raising money because money buys speed. Now, for how long will they continue to do it?

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

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.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Great for visualizing work of product development. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development.