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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later.

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

When a startup finds a repeatable sales process and steadily increasing revenue, its investors wants to harvest the rewards and build a culture of “execution.” However, if the founder is still running the company, the last thing he wants is a company complacent with day-to-day execution.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. the Untouched Vertical.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. Our lean, limited asset business provides us the opportunity to focus our efforts on sales, marketing and most importantly our customers.