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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. ” We certainly did. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Evangelos : Yes.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Should founders have anti-dilution rights?

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. We’re building a supercomputer.”

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. What is your competitive advantage? Our materials are very special, and hard to make. Plants love it.

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Vistage

Growthink Blog

This past week, I had the pleasure and honor to present to John Morris'' Woodland Hills, California Vistage Group. For those that don''t know it, Vistage is one of the world''s largest CEO and business owner organizations, with more than 17,000 members in 15 countries.