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

Mucker Lab

In the same vein, because not as many entrepreneurs in Los Angeles worked at companies like Google or Facebook, a lot of them have not really gotten the training they need to properly communicate requirements, run a scrum, or conduct A/B testing. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management.

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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum! Alex Taussig joined us as a partner from Highland Capital Partners where he spent the last 7 years as a venture capitalist.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. Tendayi explained, “It's actually based on the venture capital notion of investment thesis. What products in our portfolio are declining that we need to fix?”

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Learning from the High Flyers, Part Two

Growthink Blog

When it comes to how that "Collection of Humans" that make up how a modern business is organized, long gone and never to return are the days of all a companies' people being W-2 employees working under a common roof.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? About VC Cafe.