Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Urgency and risk-taking in a startup are integral parts of the culture, felt by 100 percent of early-stage employees. Unique among them was Stanford, which provost Fred Terman (the father of American electronic warfare and electronic intelligence in World War I) ) built as a center of excellence in microwaves and electronics.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems.
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View from Seed
JULY 21, 2022
EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? IH: We even went to yearbook summer camp together! And your least?
Altgate
OCTOBER 8, 2009
← Words of widsom from my youth Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan → Comments are closed. The two most popular posts remain this one on term sheet negotiation and this one on venture debt , although this one on convertible debt is giving them a run for their money.
Steve Blank
JUNE 2, 2011
Yet even with all these tools, early stage startups still need to physically meet with advisors and investors. We propose that early stage startups communicate in a way that didn’t exist in the 20 th century – online – collaboratively through blogs. The University of Michigan is a possible first test.)
ReadWriteStart
JANUARY 26, 2011
The filing was uncovered in a story by Fortune , which points to a memo from the University of Michigan Regents, a longtime investor with Sequoia, to describe the strategy of the new fund. According to that document, the fund will continue the firm's focus on investment in early and growth stage technology companies in the U.S.
Haystack
MAY 4, 2019
” chants will come from the Twitter Peanut Gallery, and many VCs do — there are outcomes like Duo in Michigan, Qualtrics in Utah, or Atlassian in Australia. “Get a plane!” For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015.
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