Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Here are a few of my favorites sampling techniques that I have seen work out well over the years: Take a job for a while with an early-stage startup. In all cases, it pays to play to your strengths, and stick to business domains and skills you already know. Adopt the Silicon Valley entrepreneur family model.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Pay to play. This is actually the norm.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Getting people to buy in to your startup vision takes a thick skin, perseverance and willingness to learn. It follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Tenacity and resilience. Kerry Frank. You can do anything.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” goes into a startup.

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Professor VC

MARCH 11, 2013

While the rest of Silicon Valley is slamming drinks at SXSW in Austin and trying out the mobile app Bang with Friends , I'm sitting in my office thinking about last week's Launch Festival. I'm surprised it is still around in 2013, but am sure the selectivity criteria has changed to whoever is willing to pay.

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