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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. View More in Detroit ›. Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. New York ›.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Nina Tandon , CEO and co-founder of EpiBone , the world’s first company growing bones for skeletal reconstruction.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. This was with the companies who wanted to hire them.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . Joining me this week at the Stanford University studio were: Wayne Sutton , co-founder of BUILDUP VC. Dave Kashen.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. I found a job in Ann Arbor working as a field engineer. What kind of place were we in that advertised for engineers on the radio? Four-Phase Systems is hiring …”. Did we just hear this right?

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