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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing. That kind of distilled it,” Coats says.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. We focus on evidence and trajectory across the business model.

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