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Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

YoungUpstarts

The startup accelerator also announced that it will incorporate lean startup methodology as a key aspect in its upcoming program, and will be the first in Europe to do so. ” Applications for the second year of the Rockstart Accelerator program are open now through January 20, 2013.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. The biggest lost opportunity of all, though, is this one: we no longer need to rely on scarcity or status-oriented measures to filter which projects should get the green light. 12comments: Dougvs said. In that I see opportunity.

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How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?

Both Sides of the Table

For simplicity I’ll assume you’ve raised some money from angels or seed investors and you’re either raising an A round or a B round of venture capital. If you have a mediocre meeting with a high-quality prospect and you don’t think they’re likely to lean in they drop to a B or C. these are simply guidelines. To be clear?—?your

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. NPR Marketplace: Businesses save off green incentives. venture capital. Recent Posts. retirement.

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Redesign of Teten.com and TheVirtualHandshake.com

David Teten

My mother and I met Daniella Norwood, the owner of ella j designs , and her husband Brian Bigda at a Lean Startup Machine weekend at which I was a judge. We changed the color scheme of teten.com to green, in order to match the color scheme of ffvc.com. Assembling a WordPress Website. fixing some existing errors. A New Website Design.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

Both Sides of the Table

“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.”

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Then I would return back north to the much drabber green palette of bombers and uniforms and continue to defend democracy. While it seemed a bit incongruous, it was fun listening to my friends in graduate school over dinner worrying about grades and jobs.