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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. I don’t have a killer idea, or a technical team, but I do know how to build, grow, and manage teams.”.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Anish Sebastian and Juan-Pablo Segura cofounded Babyscripts in 2013 with the vision that internet enabled medical devices and big data would transform the delivery of pregnancy care.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

Founders that learn are more successful : Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money, have 2.9x

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.