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Startup Lessons Learned

For those that don’t know, I live in downtown Oakland which has been one of the protest flashpoints. Beyond my own personal fear, I received a call from my friend, a young Black man who lives above that Target and works in finance at Google. What can you do as an individual?

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.

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Entrepreneurial Density and Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

In it, he looked at Venture Capital financing (total dollars and number of deals) on a per-capital basis. Boulder came in third, behind “San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA” (what most of us think of as “Silicon Valley”) and “San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA” (what most of us think of as San Francisco.).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. It is, however, too early for financing. In addition, we had attendees from many other parts of the world.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Bean There, Done That: How Technology Is Helping Blue Bottle Coffee Serve Up A Great Cup

Hunter Walker

Satya and I visited Blue Bottle’s Oakland HQ a few weeks back and I love talking with retailers about the way technology is changing their business (such as this previous post with a SF-based bakery owner ). I now look after finance and digital efforts for the company. It went well, so he asked me to join the team.

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Sports, Business, Metrics, and Winning

Growthink Blog

Baseball, with its extended season and its fundamental “One-on-One Matchups” game structure has long been the most advanced team sport when it comes to metrics driving player values, roster composition, and in-game tactics and strategies.

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