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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

We have a team of 7 in San Francisco (a counter bet on our belief that the Bay Area is an amazing place.) We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but I think most people know we’re HQ’d in LA (Santa Monica to be exact) but we invest nationally and internationally.

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3 Tips For Developing A Sky-High Growth Plan

YoungUpstarts

Develop a Map to New Customers. Look at SEO and develop a strategy for content or paid advertising to address why customers are finding a company’s web page. This is about developing a map to find new customers. And that means properly identifying priority targets, developing the right message and the best way to deliver it.

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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

United States San Francisco Bay Home to Silicon Valley, which houses some of the most prominent tech startups and multinational firms, the San Francisco Bay area remains one of the top startup hubs in the U.S. Competition is tight, but recent layoffs and uncertainty have created new possibilities for entrepreneurs.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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Welcoming Max Webster to the Version One team

Version One Ventures

In fact, he started his own consultancy, Entiende Bitcoin , to help Bitcoin companies develop and distribute products in emerging markets. He will be based in San Francisco with me. He’s super passionate about many aspects of tech, from solar to crypto/blockchain and machine learning. He loves basketball.