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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

That was a 65% drop from the year-earlier quarter and the lowest fourth-quarter amount since 2013 Fundraising slowdown: LPs invested in 226 VC funds in Q4. 2023 will be one of the best VC seed vintages, but most institutional LP's are not leaning in. Support emerging managers.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. It’s called the Lean Startup. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. It’s called the Lean Startup. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo.

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3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love

Duct Tape Marketing

My advice for you, with the web being so oversaturated (and consumers being over stimulated), is to think like you are Google’s famous ultra-lean homepage: if you only had to pick a handful of things, what the priority? Web hosting has come a long way since I setup my first self-hosted domain back in 2004. If You Liked This Post. :

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The Best Books for Marketers (New and Old)

ConversionXL

Mauborgne (2004). The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011). The Lean Startup explores the scientific process of creating products and services your customers love—without spending months or years walking toward a dead end. This Book Will Teach You How to Write Better by Neville Medhora (2013). Blue Ocean Strategy by W.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. However, there is still work to be done. ” .