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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center. John Maeda, formerly Design Partner, KPCB; formerly President of Rhode Island School of Design. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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Brown University Talk

Steve Blank

One of the things I did was to speak to the startup community in Providence Rhode Island at Brown University. 7:54: How we used to build startups. 11:40: How the Lean Startup began. 13:34: Why startups are not smaller versions of large companies. 20:10: Customer Development is an art.