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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The Rise of the Lean Startup. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

portfolios. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. 16:35-19:35).

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Blue Collar VC

Mucker Lab

Just as entrepreneurs should aspire to raise capital from value-added, “smart money” investors, we, too, have focused on partnering with committed, long-term, institutional limited partners (LPs). With a well-capitalized fund, great LPs, and a solid portfolio, we are privileged to continue serving exceptional entrepreneurs.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. So anyone in your portfolio, or anyone that you've been talking to have an example of something like that, or impressed you with something? My partner, Martin, and I did just that. My partner, my spouse works, it's not a stress for me. You can't fall back. Especially now.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. We had grown into a more reasonable burn rate so raising capital meant we would have many years of cash on the balance sheet.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. Post-Mortem Title : Untitled Partners Post-Mortem. Company : Untitled Partners. Company: Home Portfolio. Title: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet.