Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The company expanded rapidly, growing from nine employees to 150 over the course of just five weeks. By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. And, listen, I tell the stories of startups going fast for a living. How are you?

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The myth about pivots is that they are an exception: something undesirable that happens because a startup went seriously awry, and which you should strive to avoid. Actually, startups, like all businesses, work because of a cycle of invention and reinvention. In reality, pivots are an integral part of the entrepreneurial process.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. However, I still see multi-million dollar investments in startups that seem to make no damn sense.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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