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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Evangelos Simoudis zJoining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Evangelos Simoudis , venture investor and senior advisor to global corporations. Filed under: Customer Development. Srivastava , chief data scientist at Verizon. Ashok Srivastava. Steve : And they need to agree.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

A number of analysts have particular focus on serving the customers of technology companies, e.g., Gartner and 451 Research. We use the vendors of PE/VC investing data I list above to track the interests of potential private equity/VC coinvestors, and selectively introduce our companies as I build out a syndicate. .

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. Of course, bringing startups (whether prospective or existing portfolio companies) closer to operating divisions has business and customer development benefits. They invest alongside financial VCs.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

IMO, this sharp right turn in our industry toward compromising the integrity of process [where quality matters] toward eliminating the cost of integrity has both incapacitated project development AND created and enabled a shadow profession to corrupt the profession. Our profession is in trouble. June 15, 2009 8:43 PM jackcrews said.