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How Can Venture Capital Funds Differentiate Themselves [VC Wish List Part 2]

VC Cafe

VCs should aim to provide comprehensive data to their portcos on industry benchmarks, burn rates, market research, competitive analysis, etc. Create events around guests arriving from abroad or experts in a vertical area. Be a data source – the data flow between a VC and a startup doesn’t have to be one-sided.

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. I have enjoyed pando as you build your community. “It’s hard to create a company like this as a kid,” he says. Jebb Dykstra. off topic.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

The formation of the military/industrial/university relationships during the Cold War and the relationship between Stanford and the intelligence community in particular, went on untold and out of sight. But in fact, most startups need to keep their burn rate low more [.] to do that.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Luckily, the startup community often courageously shares their stories – even when things don’t end well. Three notes before we begin: After reading these, you realize more than ever that the startup community is really like no other. It takes a lot of work to build a community. And they’re largely right.

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Libox Wants To Manage All of Your Media and on Any Device (Interview with Erez Pilosof)

VC Cafe

It’s all based on growth and on opening the capabilities of the Libox distribution platform to the community. Our burn rate is very low and the technology is very scalable. We have indirect competitors in each of those verticals. Our user interface was based on HTML, which was a hard challenge.

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