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True Grit: It’s Not Just Founders We Should Celebrate

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Rachael is enrolled at the Startup Institute , an eight-week program that teaches its pupils the nuances of web development, web design, technical marketing, or sales and account management. She is a student on the web development track—and based on her background, that might seem a little hard to believe.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. We average eight to 10 total new investments per year as a firm, so this frequency is a typical investment pace for us. A few themes which have emerged from our 13 most recent investments: CONSUMER (B2C).

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Startup Shootaround: Making Sense of Voice Technology

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For instance, I can’t ask Alexa very many factual questions because it’s hard to ask a search question to Alexa, but that’s the sweet spot for Siri. You’ve seen a search result or list of links before. More context is needed in the search through voice command so the computer can spit back something specific.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

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You can of course share privately that you’ve raised a round, but it’s a different story than a prospective employee (and their friends & family who she is going to brag to) can easily find it with a web search. Seeing on the screen just feels more “real” to many prospective employees, even if it shouldn’t. Inbound partners.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 Georgiades (Zumper): I think business school is more about soul searching than spending 24 hours building a product. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. Startups are all about just going out there and doing it.

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Why Investing in the Everyday Economy Isn’t Just a Consumer Strategy

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This technology enhances a consumer experience for literally thousands of media properties across the web. In the end, we look for companies dramatically improving people’s everyday lives first, and then search for startups that design the business model around that transformation. 2) Pervasive Tools. Alignable ).

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Hiring Your First Engineer: A Technical Entrepreneur’s Take

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So this further complicates your search. If you know you are building something that is web-based but very UI intensive, an engineer with lots of Front-End experience is ideal. I’d consider them to be more like generalists. Sometimes, the decision about who to look for is easier than other times.

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