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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. If you can’t see the video of the Protocol One team presenting click here. If you can’t see the Protocol One slides click here.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The first is HSearch, a NoSQL technology based search engine for big data that aims to break the barrier of scale of growing information and accessing it across information silos. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

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On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11 a.m.,

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. So, let’s just look back 10 years to the 2011 vintage. Was this a lost decade for venture capital? Source: Cambridge Associates.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. So, let’s just look back 10 years to the 2011 vintage. Was this a lost decade for venture capital? Source: Cambridge Associates.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Intuit 2020 Research Report. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. CRM Magazine: 2011 CRM Market Leaders. Unleash It!

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