Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For startup founders, it’s never too early to start thinking about putting together a target market advisory board. The target market advisory board should consist of 2–4 industry veterans who have connections to C-level execs and VPs in your target market. Never discount the power of a warm intro.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. You will quickly see how crowded the space really is, how big a pain point you are solving and who potential partners are. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

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. He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. As for #3. I agree completely.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

He was on the Army Signal Corps R&D Advisory Council, the Air Force Electronic Countermeasures Scientific Advisory board, a Trustee of the Institute of Defense Analysis, the Naval Research Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board, and a consultant to the President’s Science Advisory Committee.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

It’s started by Marc Ruxin , a former A&R man for EMI Records who has been on a million advisory boards in the Valley and had several jobs in and around pop culture. I have enough sense at 46 to have 2 business partners that are in their 60s and one of them is our CEO.

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