Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. Max entered Stanford in the fall of 2010 as a freshman, took as many of the engineering entrepreneurship classes as he could and independent study with me. (He

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” I’ve Been in Venture Capital for Two Months.

Seed Stage 177

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Formlabs, makers of a high-resolution 3D printer aimed at engineers and design professionals. Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are radically improving capital efficiency because customers are now paying for product months in advance and because first demand validation is now virtually free. Venture Capital'

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e., the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall. Louis areas, was another reason for starting up his engineering team there.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? About VC Cafe. Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

One would think that designing a medical device would be a simple engineering problem, and startups would be emerging right and left. Venture Capital Issues. Early stage Venture Capital for medical device startups has dried up. The amount of capital being invested in new device companies is at an 11 year low.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” . A Global Impact Tech Alliance.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. The company is currently seeking first-round venture capital and institutional funding.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The Venture Capital in the Rockies 2010 Winter conference is a premier event for both promising companies and attendees,” said Seth Levine, chairman of VCIR and a managing partner at the Foundry Group, a Boulder, CO-based venture capital firm.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Denver, CO, February 23, 2010 – The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association today unveiled its final lineup of growth companies at the 27 th annual Venture Capital in the Rockies (VCIR) 2010 Winter conference. VCIR Launches 20 Promising Companies/Page 2. About VCIR.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

C rowdsourcing is a beautiful thing but question and answer engines not always deliver. Both in terms of product, potential for exit and viral growth&# and aggregated the community answers. The usefulness of the answer usually depends on the knowledge and availability of the respondents.

Viral 94

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Last year, I spent a lot of time attempting to reverse engineer  this data based on a small personal sample size.  Obviously, WSGR has a much larger sample size and the fact that they make it public (in aggregate) is impressive. link] Marketing your Online Business – Effective Search Engine Optimization [.]

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

A pressure test of what is possible when the connected world aggregate small amounts of money with large amounts of thinking. We are buildng a full size car, built entirely from lego, with an engine built from lego, and the engine runs on air. Normal everyday people having a crack at creating part of the technology narrative.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details. These great people are in our network. Even more of them are within our network’s network.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Most importantly, the phrase “ bootstrapping a startup ” translates into “growing your business with little or no venture capital or outside investment. It is also important to realize that, statistically speaking, most startups become operational without any venture capital or external funding sources.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding. Add to this that 72.7%

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If getting VC or angel money is one of the ways that will help you avoid failure, why not check out the free Funding Recommendation Engine here ? #20 Posted in Analysis , Venture Capital. QIWI Investors Ink a Venture Capital Round of Funding » You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. The Amazon AWS-led revolution of startup innovation has led to a massive increase in the aggregate number of startups. This led to an explosion in startups.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 and Intacct for $0.85B.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

Community is the aggregate of a web of relationships that flow naturally through a place. A lot of what they''d need would be really simple--intros to capital, spaces to convene, or just some PR. Venture Capital & Technology' Community isn''t just something you create by setting up a place to have coffee or to work.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Best of luck in your venture. If you’ve read this far, you definitely should : Try out our Funding Recommendation Engine.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. Venture Capital. (3).

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JULY 7, 2010

Nor does it need to be for them to make an aggregate impact on economic growth. Many build health, productive, job producing companies that are engineered NOT to be high growth. The truth is that growth as Shane likes to see (as in high growth, high potential firms) is just not every entrepreneur's idea of a good time.

Small Business 67

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. Sorry, folks.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

That if you are getting venture capital money, that if you are an angel investor, you’re going to want a business plan and if you are going to a bank, you might need a business plan, but other than that, I don’t need a plan. When Google came onto the market in ’99, ’00, there was already 15 other search engines.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. Reply Harvey , on April 11, 2009 at 7:05 pm Said: Some of the best engineers I hired out of school were not 3.5+ GPA or better.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

You see, Dan knows more about venture than most people; and if Dan isn’t aware that “pre-seed is a thing,” then I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining to the world what I and K9 do! Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Engineering Capital. Precursor Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

The engine can also correct the problem as it is detected using a SaaS platform. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. Sixscan alerts publishers on security problems before hackers discover them themselves. Lassoit – a more personal way to learn a language.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

The moral of the story (back then and now) is that capalist greed is the engine that will drive us out of trouble, but that motive must not be left unwatched. ← Viridus Launches Green Business News Aggregator Sell Snowblowers in the Winter, Not Lawn Mowers → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In this case, fully-burdened is not just the salary, bonus, and benefits of the sales rep, but also allocations for sales engineering support, executive support, marketing expense, and professional service expenses associate with securing the customer. Venture Capital. (3). Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

We practice it religiously in the engineering team at HubSpot and the insights are always there, highly valuable. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales. All rights reserved.

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