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Angel Investing – The Most Underrated Skill: Access to Buyers

Both Sides of the Table

Imagine that you funded Larry & Sergey, Chad Hurley & Steve Chen, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Pincus or Evan Williams. He’s backed so many of the Silicon Valley’s young elite tech professionals. The is even more so the case with big-name VCs. Or eBay / PayPal, Salesforce.com, Skype, etc.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. Chad and Steve. We know Steve and Chad. How do you define yourself?

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley. Zilog Zilog was my first Silicon Valley company where you could utter the customer’s name in public. Recovery That weekend I left the Valley and drove along the coast from San Francisco to Monterey. The bill had come due.

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Twitter Link Roundup #270 – Exemplary Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

Congratulations to Deacon and the animators, Jake Fried, Chad Vangaalen, Dimitri Stankowicz, Colin White, Taras Hrabowsky, Anthony Schepperd, Masanobu Hiraoka, Caleb Wood, KOKOFreakbean! NerdWallet raised $64 million in Series A led by Institutional Venture Partners – Silicon Valley Business Journal [link] crowdspring.co/1IClQlq

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

Reply Chad Albrecht , on July 23, 2009 at 11:23 am Said: Great post! How delightful it would be to have a presidential candidate named Frost. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. You might be interested to know that Frost called this “a tricky poem.&#. Very few of us do. Pols love ambiguity.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks. SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. To be blunt, find a way to move to Silicon Valley.