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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. Reducing Startup Risk.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

The future of the Internet is video. He created Fox Kids Europe and took it from scratch to worth North of 1 billion Euros in value and was ultimately sold as part of a $5.3 Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. You start traveling around Europe, starting working for them overseas. You didn’t join startups then.

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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

www.kernelmag.com

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. The upshot of all of this is that today’s startups can concentrate maximum time and resources addressing the problems they set out to solve. I’ve been sent a random email from someone who is “founding” a business, who needs a technical co-founder.”.

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Why it is hard for VCs to say ‘no’ and why that ‘no’ could be good news for an entrepreneur

The Next Web

But if our website says that Credo invests in IT, Internet, mobile or healthcare startups predominantly in Central Europe, I just don’t feel obliged to respond to a gold mine in Mongolia or Australian TV production studio. More on getting inspired by global leaders from Central Europe in my next post….

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. I’ve listed a few more below which require meaningful startup and ongoing costs. Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets.

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

(I am often asked to explain how to apply Lean Startup approaches to domains beyond software. On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. And, as a result, more and more companies are able to benefit from Lean Startup practices.