Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. So assessing fit is critical. What should the firm do?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. Brands like Samsung, LG, and Dunkin Donuts pay Meebo to advertise to users on our partner sites. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford? After a month of launch Meebo was getting 50k logins a day.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. Second, the Board can usually avoid a public vote or referendum by leasing to a new partner, something politicians fear. They seek to modernized a facility and retool for a tighter, more effective operations. municipalities are also the most fiscally troubled.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. What’s bringing them here?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Party Pieces grew rapidly and the Middletons moved their operations to three converted farm buildings outside of London.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. Really the decision was made over a period of about two days to just suspend all operations and focus everything on COVID. We were supposed to have the kickoff meeting.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. Graham is careful about whom he chooses to partner with. FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT. Naming a Business.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 3, 2012

As an example, I pretty much love all the beers created by Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California. Often this is done through alliances with strategic partners and other opportunities for synergy. Specifically, the winning companies will craft a focused strategy that gives them a distinctive advantage.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Operations. If you partner with a large, wealthy private school district who wants you to provide comic book packages to all their eighth-grade students every month, that contract might be key your business survival for a period of time. What vendors can you partner with to give you discounted or free sample products for your box?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

"It was delusional for a guy operating in a walk-in closet, but I was like, 'You live once, you might as well swing for the fences.'" So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. It was a friend.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 28, 2005

I was in California 3 weeks ago when Jeff Nolan told me he was leaving SAP Venture s and moving to a new group within SAP desgined to "Kill Oracle." So I am sad to see one of my VC buddies go back to the operational side, but I look forward to working with him closely as he helps SAP evolve its stategy and maintain its leadership.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. You can learn more about the small farm classification system from the USDA’s website, but so long as you’re within the $0-$350,000 bracket, you can guarantee your operation will be classified as a small farm business.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Additionally, it will be important to consider whether you plan on attracting investment capital through the distribution of stock, because only certain types of businesses can issue shares of ownership. The major downside of the LLC is that distribution of stock is not permitted, although interests can be assigned (this can get complicated).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. With the help of advisors Ada Ryland and Wayne Lopez, we set up data-driven operation to get clarity on what and why we measured?—?and you win on 50% + 1 or you don’t…). and the outcomes. “If

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area. In a place where there are many, many venture capital firms, he couldn't think of a single female general partner.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation. See a sample reprint in PDF format.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. In just a year of operations, Fab has signed up nearly 5 million members, sold 1.8 Personal Technology. What They Know. All Things Digital. POST A JOB.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman).

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”). infoChachkie. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. You can see a list of every city where they operate and make directed donations on their site.)Thanks Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen. The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. Frank Barbieri is the president of Art.com.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, And you can now negotiate for fees for cable and satellite operators to carry your channels. AOL and the like. And you have a franchise.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

free, distributed source code control management system. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Their Partners all come from industry, where each has held senior level executive positions delivering industry-leading products. Pivotal Tracker â?? Mercurial â?? Preceden â??

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 8, 2011

The operating system market was monopolized by Windows for many years while Linux and Apple had single digit market share. (Of At that point in time, Microsoft joint forces with IBM , the industry giant at that time, to provide Operating System software for all of its machines. It was not a marketing plan, it was a business strategy.

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