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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm. Much of this is due to the lack of venture capital – seed-stage venture capital, in particular – to get companies off the ground here in Los Angeles.

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Values Build Startup Culture: A Founder’s Take on Getting Started

View from Seed

For seed-stage startups, when resources are tight, trying to consciously build startup culture can feel wasteful. We keep ourselves accountable to those goals through company progress dashboards, Scrum, etc. We find those people. Clear Goals: We seek to have clear goals — organizational down to individual.

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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

Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Nice and leanâ?? and free online Kanban tool. Kanban Tool â?? Another Kanban tool. Acunote â?? Agile project management. Agilezen â?? VersionOne â??