Hunter Walker
OCTOBER 31, 2020
So I’ve found that when you’re not already ‘in the door’ at a firm (ie went to school with the senior GP’s kids, worked at a startup they backed) that there are four different types of “qualifications” they are seeking. Instead I’ve written some stuff down — take a look and if you have any follow-up maybe we can handle over email.
VC Cafe
MAY 18, 2022
For many investors it’s not business as usual – and term sheets are getting pulled (normally a big no-no). I’ve seen more term sheets pulled in the last month than in the last decade. Round sizes will likely get smaller in the short term. Advice for startup founders (consolidated). Just sayin.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
But Cafepress’s most memorable moment was when the founders used a “Lessons Learned” VC pitch to raise their second round of funding and got an 8-digit term sheet that same afternoon. The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Here’s how they did it.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”
Haystack
FEBRUARY 9, 2019
At the beginning of 2018, we almost invested in a startup with two strong founders. My old friend Krishna Gade and his new co-founder, Amit Paka, were teaming up to build a new startup in one of the most exciting technology spaces out there today — artificial intelligence. This is the story of how we invested in Fiddler Labs.
Steve Blank
APRIL 9, 2009
If these sound like reasonable answers to you, and you are in a startup/small company, update your resume. Titles are not your job When I pressed my staff to explain why marketing did trade shows, or wrote press releases or penned data sheets, the best I could get was “why that’s our job.”
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