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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. 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. I pointed out that there were. Reducing Startup Risk.

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Why your company should have a single email address

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Yet, when it comes to email management, most companies seems to adopt a somewhat broken posture: either they don’t advertise any public email or they advertise too many of them. A client with a technical question our billing, unsure of the proper contact, decided to separately email sales@ , support@ and billing@.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. We were infatuated with tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we never lost the finance bug. Factom, Inc.

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

David Teten

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. This evolves the VC from a server to a router. – Hire more non-Partner staff.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. One thing I learned from there, is that the manager is the first step. Jason: Right.

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6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups

mashable.com

The mailing list works in two ways: Every two weeks the 10 most interesting listings are e-mailed to more than 40,000 startups on the “Help a Startup Out Digest” listserv, and every week the best technical listings are sent to the “Hackers Digest” listserv. Because there’s a fee to post jobs and resumes, there’s not much spam.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. The fine print?