Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre [Silicon Valley] –> Itself an outgrowth of the venture investing arm of the original Bank of America (based in SF), Merrill Pickard backed many startups that ultimately went public. That can create a whole host of issues upon a generational transfer of a fund. link] leehower.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Team New Zealand designed the yacht that won the Americas Cup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Please leave a comment and lets discuss! Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Similarly, 24% of all the patents filed in the US in 2006 had a foreign resident as inventor or co-inventor. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. Steve Blank has asked me to co-teach his MBA entrepreneurship class at Berkeley Haas, starting January 19, and to revamp the curriculum to make it a full introduction to the lean startup. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 122

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Co-founders and outsourcing work the same. BTW: great keynote at Railsconf!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

No other industry in America says that customers complaining are "trolls" -- it's only those with digital wears using these old geek memes that are so marginalizing and destructive. As a founder of a company, there is nothing more painful than to see your most loyal and devoted customers suffering. We are partners.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard has had tremendous impact on the world of AI entrepreneurship. Jeremy Howard : Sure. Good Lord, no.

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Czech Republic San Francisco Campaign Washington 113