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Moneyball and the Investment Readiness Level-video

Steve Blank

17:20 The Investment Readiness Level (IRL) for new ventures. 19:30 The Oakland A’s and Moneyball. Startup Tools here Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching , Venture Capital. 3:36 The 3 Components of the Lean Startup. 6:00 Teaching startups & companies Lean: The Lean LaunchPad class.

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Entrepreneurial Density and Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

Two of his latest articles talk about entrepreneurial density and venture capital. The Connection Between Venture Capital and Diverse, Dense Communities. In it, he looked at Venture Capital financing (total dollars and number of deals) on a per-capital basis. High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing.

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Why Are Venture Capitalists Ignoring The Future? The Emerging Domestic Economy

David Teten

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). Despite all this, we are living on a different planet when it comes to which companies receive venture capital.

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

645 Ventures: A New Era of Venture Capital Investing Arena Growth Partners We help great leaders build great businesses. Aspect Ventures | Aligned VC We believe that the interests of investors and entrepreneurs can and should be aligned. For most of us, we have been the only woman partner or senior executive in our firm.

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How to Beat Inequity in Investment

Austin Startup

With the recent influx of startups, there is a lot of competition for venture capital funding. However, the majority of venture capital goes to men, with only 16.8% Female-founded, VC-funded: The numbers behind venture investment in women [datagraphic]. PitchBook News. Published March 15, 2017.

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Top Cities for Venture Capital Activity

Business Plan Blog

Entrepreneurial Density and Venture Capital. The chart below looks at the total amount of dollars spent by venture capital firms as well as the total number of deals on a per-capita basis. As we can see, Boulder came in third behind San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (AKA Silicon Valley) and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont.