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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. We have a team of 7 in San Francisco (a counter bet on our belief that the Bay Area is an amazing place.) It’s just math.

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

In this blog post, I want to share the story of a lean pop-up organization called HelpKitchen. Since then, in about 3 months, we’ve fed over 170,000 people and injected over $1mm into the local economy in San Francisco and Detroit. SF New Deal and Frontline Foods were early leaders.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. And a special thank you to Heather Brunner, our CEO for the past four and a half years. Long-time readers of this (11-year old!!)

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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

In New York, San Francisco, and the world over, investors are having lunches just talking about it. Why it’s great: Their blog is updated frequently with fresh content that will help keep people coming to the site for years to come. The site also offers a blog and forum for users to discuss apps. Startup News.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap. and I have a yard with a pool and a beautiful home for less than what I would pay for an equivalent-sized condo in San Francisco.