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You’ll Need At Least Two of These Four Qualifications to Get Hired By a Venture Firm

Hunter Walker

All of these areas require real understanding of core underlying technology, not just pattern matching against a business model applied to a vertical. Hiring for many roles in SF, North Carolina or Remote. Climate sustainability. Qualification #4: You have an emerging track record as a good angel investor.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. Get Out of Building Our trip to North Carolina was part of a year long effort to get out of the building to understand our market, customers and their applications. They would all work in this one company.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Finally, for those of you who need some additional infusion of courage, please study the story of Ryan Allis in North Carolina who bootstrapped his company iContact to $1 million in revenue and THEN raised venture capital to get to $40 million. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats.