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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. And it may work.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners. What’s up with that?

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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

This is also where your own priorities may influence who you are looking to partner with. Equally, an app developer that specialises for example in iPhone apps may not grasp the different design patterns for Android or properly leverage that device’s operating system. Research the founder, MD or CEO of the company. encounters delays.

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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. Both operating executives and top advisors count. Investment firms specialize by business sectors, and each partner within the firm has a specialty. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

As the technical partner, we want to be real partners in the business-making sure the technology helps achieve the business objectives. A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. Our business model nudges us slightly toward the sound, safe (stodgy?) Those requests had better be worth it!

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital. 5. We then went back to talking about how to choose the space in which your startup is operating. be the guy that provides them quotes”).

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Office Hours – Two or three partners post a sign-up sheet to meet with entrepreneurs. These partners travel to a city and take ten minute pitches from the entrepreneurs.