Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2018

I leaned hard on the latter and no one paid much attention to what we were really doing. They took their time to get to know us, our vision and watched us for months as we built our product and reputation. Angel vs Venture Capital It normally goes that you start with self funded and/or family and friends.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

And so was his reputation for being verbally abusive to his direct reports. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. You have to decide where to lean in on follow-on rounds. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas. Asia’s entrepreneurs and investors have a much longer history of being scrappy and building massive businesses with very little upfront resources, because capital has always been so scarce.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. think many of the fundamentals behind the lean startup are things you likely have been practicing for a while. And then I took a stand.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

It was a treat to host Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures at Harvard Business School today - his first time attending a class at the school. Fred, as most readers of this blog know, is a venture capital legend in the making and the investor in some of today's leading consumer Web properties, including Twitter, Zynga and Four Square.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The difference between the two ways of thinking is why successful entrepreneurs have the reputation for being relentless. So much so, I took a Customer Development approach to my startup, which I wrote up as a Case Study for the Google Group Lean Startup Circle. To an outsider it looks like they’re annoyingly persistent.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Your reputation relies on whether your clients trust in you and the services that you offer them. Passive income can be handy for bolstering your bottom line and an important safety net for lean seasons. One of the most effective ways to build a reputation and gain clients is to share your expertise with as many people as possible.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

One magazine called us the “Digital Dream Team”, young, edgy and hip, and by the looks of the company (great building, nice furniture, and well dressed 20-year olds) we were trying to live up to the reputation. All this activity occurring before we actually shipped a product.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

I didn’t know Ren personally, but I certainly knew him by reputation — as one of the smartest people around. The experience of going up and down Sand Hill to pitch Refocus with Ren is also what opened my eyes to what was happening in the venture capital space. His office was next door to mine.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? The Kauffman Foundation analyzed their own investments in venture capital (100 funds) over a 20-year period and found, “Only twenty of the hundred venture funds generated returns that beat a public market equivalent by more than 3% annually….Sixty-two

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

Brian grew up locally and after he was graduated from Stanford (engineering) and Stanford MBA he went to work at a firm called Palomar Ventures. Rick was a partner there having previously been a Managing Director and founding member of Sun America’s venture capital practice and having been graduated from Harvard Law School.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg says don’t take venture capital money [.] link] The Best Programming Language for a Lean Startup [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Including ff Venture Capital’s unique approach to finding deals and the services they provide to their startups. And ff Venture Capital cleverly has created a blog where their portofolio companies contribute. 27:00 John: Trust and reputation are hard to earn and easily lost. 500px is in Toronto.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. That would have given you a trifecta. March 26, 2011 at 9:18 pm.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards.

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