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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Most are founded and run by experienced entrepreneurs that have previously built companies and who understand the difference between theory and practice. It’s a company that creates multiple startups in-house, then finds entrepreneurs who take them over to grow them. Why Would an Entrepreneur Join a Venture Studio?

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The Next Chapter for NextView

View from Seed

Through all of this, what has been obvious is her hunger to serve founders and desire to work with entrepreneurs to bring about the kind of world changing impact we seek to be a part of at NextView. Almost all of this increase came from our existing Limited Partners, with a small portion that was made available to new LPs.

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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing

Both Sides of the Table

I thought I’d try to look at it from a different lens, that of the entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur you should assume that. So what is an entrepreneur to do? I sometimes ask entrepreneurs. But I do the same thing with entrepreneurs and I do it publicly on This Week in VC. Investors talk to each other.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Steve : And they wanted a bigger business than just a vent company.

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If You Don’t Respect Your Customers You Won’t Be Successful

Both Sides of the Table

In case you don’t know – as VCs we have have 2 sets of customers: LPs (limited partners) who invest money in our funds and entrepreneurs (who we in turn give money to and help support them in building businesses we hope will be valuable). I have gotten to the point where I consider many of my LPs friends.

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Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

But entrepreneurs entering regulated markets need to understand how the game is played, how they can play it, what their VC’s should be doing to help them, and how to win. [link] ) Let’s be clear, rent seekers and regulatory capture strangle innovation in its crib. It’s the antithesis of how founders want to build a business.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

As I like to say when asked, “For entrepreneurs you generally need to go to 2-3 cities max and probably pitch 5-15 investors. In recent years we’ve had big wins across all of our long term partners (Yves: Envestnet), (Steven: TrueCar), (Me: Maker Studios). Was it hard to raise the fund? It’s always hard raising money.

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