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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here].

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

It’s almost like the venture community is almost like an influencer bubble. . I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I like the get fit and lean in.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

But I also see founders who are in an amazing cash position, even though they’re not experiencing massive tailwinds, doing very aggressive things. In a lot of the startup conversations I’ve been having, if you lean too far that way, it doesn’t resonate with people. Andrew : Right.

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