Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

This check is for The Community Foundation and for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) and results from a gift of 24,793 shares of common stock from Rally at the time of its first financing that represented approximately 1% of the equity of the company. I remember numerous conversations with Ryan about this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. That role as sparring partner can be useful if for nothing else than to test your resolve. What Rob wrote in his post is right.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. These people were not only business partners, they were friends. So, what happens next?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

We are doubling down on our commitment to partner with a diverse range of facilities across North America, including small, family-owned businesses that need the support. Scenario planning, strategic cost management, diversification, flexibility, and agility.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking alone. Thanks to Silvia Borges, Regional Rural Finance Brokers ! #2- Instead, I relied on agility and adaptability. When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need the motivation to keep moving.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

From music to finance, airlines and now offering flights to the public into space. For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. Richard Branson's phenomenal Virgin group keeps innovating and progressing. Virgin Group has always been at the forefront of popular culture business ventures. Photo Credit: Jeremy Goldman.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Paycheck Protection Program which was formed last year under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, received additional financing. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc. TikTok is a perfect platform to partner with influencers who fit your brand in order to attract customers.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

And it shows your company’s cost structures, how each department interacts with the others and where your company fits with other companies or partners to implement your business. Who are our partners? How do we finance the company, etc. How Does Customer Development, Agile Development and Lean Startups Fit?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s Finance is about reporting on historical performance and future planning through the lens of financial metrics. This is a bit of an oversimplification as there are many sub-disciplines within finance?—?accounting/controller, what’s the difference (and what do you need)?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast. Act Like a Startup.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Fast forward to today. are assigned to work inside Horizon 3 organizations.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model? Where Are the Customers?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

The processes used to organize and implement the search for the business model are Customer Development and Agile Development. As new generations of VCs with MBA’s came into the business, they compounded the problem (“that’s how we always done it” or “that’s what I learned (or the senior partners learned) in business school.”).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

I partnered up with Harrison Woods, then-Managing Director of Primal Parking. Pick the right business partner. As CIO, I oversee day-to-day activity in the office, manage relationships with external agencies and keep an eye on the numbers, from campaign performance to finance. Harrison is ultra-high-energy.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. For non-web products, get out of the building talk to 10-15 channel partners.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

By partnering with a cloud call center , financial firms get the best of both worlds. It’s Time to Get Agile. Instead, they need to start focusing on client demands — and that means getting more agile, more responsive and more modern.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Your data will be ordered and structured into information based on specific niches like engineering and construction, finance, technology, and business. Partner with a professional business services company. Thus, you must manage your available finances wisely. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy. Invest in your brand.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Some of the old-line venture firms have changed their strategy, but some are still locked into last decade’s model while the partners are living off of their management fees and go through cargo cult like rituals.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Have an account?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Yanai Oron, General Partner at Vertex, has said that his firm invested in DataRails because of the profile and strength of the platform’s positive reviews. Many companies across the globe rely on Excel to manage their finances, but reports can often sustain hard-to-find errors due to the amount of manual work needed to maintain them.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

With a focus on seed investing in the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise and business models that harness the power of network effects, our entrepreneurs have successfully been able to raise over $200 million of financing following our initial seed investment. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise".

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

And this isn’t just for your business, but as many startup founders know, your personal finances can matter just as much (especially if you aren’t profitable yet). “Make sure you’re on top of your personal finances, and project how long you can last on that money,” Nelson advises. Partner well.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

I taught the class this semester with Ann Miura-Ko a partner at Maples Investments. And it shows your company’s cost structures, how each department interacts with the others and where your company can work with other companies or partners to implement your business. Accounting Basics and Multi-stage Finance. Teaching Goals.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 19, 2013

Aside from that, I’m always constantly out of the office pitching our product and meeting with potential partners, and customers. But you’ll find over the short and long term that small efficiency improvements, like agile development and project management tools, yield huge productivity gains and set the tone for your business.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

While this signaled that investments in technology companies could be very lucrative, both Shockley and Fairchild could only be funded through corporate partners – there was no venture capital industry. In 1960’s and ‘70’s few MBA’s would give up a lucrative career in management, finance or Wall Street to join a bunch of technical lunatics.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Venture Capital is about investing in the small, fast and agile company hoping that it will beat the large and slow incumbent. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Yahoo Finance. Saturday, December 16, 2006. Betting on the right guy. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2015

The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. The market in one of your locations can change at any moment, and you’ll want to be agile enough to adapt and change with it. Remain flexible for growth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He is co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s board of directors. He's a co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey's Shareholders Council. This is John Jantsch.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. It's their fiduciary responsibility.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A typical workday starts with checking for urgent emails, then taking actions to ensure my 2 keys objectives for the week are complete, I apply an agile process to my work and don’t work on stuff that diverts me from my objectives, unless it’s critical. I’m always on my phone looking at emails and ideas for the business.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

Patents and the threat of patent infringement lawsuits provide maximum leverage against a competitor when they’re in the middle of a strategic inflection point… a major financing, acquisition, or large product launch. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Webinar Invitation : Opportunities in Smart Wearables You’re invited to attend a webinar, hosted by Growthink co-Founder and Managing Partner Jay Turo, on Friday, September 16th at Noon ET / 9 am PT where a select group of wearable entrepreneurs and investors will share how they and their companies are winning in this incredibly dynamic space.

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

Research shows that hiring diverse and inclusive talent leads to a high-performance culture that respects the customer, suppliers, community partners and employees while emphasizing results, innovation, service and agility. What are the challenges associated with diversity hiring?

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