Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars. Success begets success. and are guiding LA 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And one last specific practice that came up at this session: feverishaaron : UI, design and programmers are all in the same department, all have the same title, and all are evaluated the same. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We’ll need your contributions and your knowledge around categories like Product & Design , Marketing & Growth , Hiring & Talent , Fundraising , and more. – Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech (microsite). – Flowchart: Seed VC Decision Tree (how one seed investor gets to yes or no).

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. I wasn’t evaluating companies, mind you, but the decks themselves — nitpicking every little design and layout element to borrow and adapt and inform our project.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the venture capital industry. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the Venture Capital industry. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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