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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur. It was all technical.

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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

. — As Selections Committee chair for our Sacramento Angels investor group, I review applications from dozens of startup entrepreneurs looking for investment. I remind entrepreneurs that investors are implicitly seeking evidence of progress and milestones (but until the Investment Readiness Level never knew how to ask for it).

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SXSW Startups: Fantag

Austin Startup

In terms of specific user experience design, we have incorporated best practices in user design and we actively integrated feedback from user testing along the way. Fantag is based in Sacramento. Fantag was started in San Jose and moved to Sacramento to take advantage of this ecosystem. How did your team come together?

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New Year, New & Improved NextView Accelerator

View from Seed

From expert AMAs tailored to your pre-seed needs to hands-on mentorship from relevant, established entrepreneurs within the NextView portfolio to founder-only sessions that create a safe space for sharing and supporting one another, our programming is created to meet you where you are and propel you forward in the direction we believe you can go. .

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Go to meetings of any campus entrepreneurs groups. None of my friends and I are able to do this ourselves.