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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Values Build Startup Culture: A Founder’s Take on Getting Started

View from Seed

For seed-stage startups, when resources are tight, trying to consciously build startup culture can feel wasteful. Our operations manager Rob notes that he wouldn’t have been able to get a pup without this flexibility. We keep ourselves accountable to those goals through company progress dashboards, Scrum, etc.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Nice and leanâ?? and free online Kanban tool. Kanban Tool â?? Another Kanban tool. Acunote â?? Agile project management. Agilezen â?? VersionOne â??