Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. He told them it was now or never.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

That was the year that Dragon Army was really hitting its stride as a digital experience agency (for the first few years we were a mobile game studio, then a mobile development shop), and it was the year that 48in48 really started to grow significantly (we put on four events that year: Atlanta, New York, Boston, and Minneapolis).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

If you’re talking with a firm that mostly only invests in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re in Minnesota, you’re probably wasting your time for a seed or A round unless you find somebody at that firm who is from Minneapolis and comes home 2–3x / year already. You could easily guess their email addresses or ping them on Twitter?—?don’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

I have been getting emails and tweets all day from people upset that they cannot get into Startup Lessones Learned 2011 - either here in SF, where we're sold out, or in one of the more than 100 simulcast locations around the world, many of which are sold out, too. All I ask in return in that you pre-order the Lean Startup Book (on lean.st

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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