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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . But we’re doing it slowly. 2) Raise capital.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. This is a good thing. (I This is a good thing. (I

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I don’t know any developers. Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I need money for the servers.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses.