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Angel Investing 4 – Why You Need Deep Pockets to Win Big

Both Sides of the Table

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). When the cards align and your odds of winning increase you “lean&# on your investment and take a more bullish stance. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. avoid being diluted).

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The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020

Duct Tape Marketing

You’ll hear from Staples on the five positive emotions that are the most effective in content to get people to lean forward and share: happiness, awe, curiosity, empathy, and surprise. Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. Click here to listen to the episode. Click here to listen to the episode.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did Silicon Valley start?

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The Enlightenment, the lean startup and Steve Jobs

The Equity Kicker

In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. If I was to pick a watershed moment in the emergence of ‘entrepreneurship as a science’ it would be the publication of Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2005.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Rise of Y Combinator, 1st Branded Entrepreneur Guild.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.

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National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington

Steve Blank

Soldier, Scholar, Entrepreneur. In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center. Ironically, I was first introduced to Joe not at Stanford but through one of his other lives – that of an entrepreneur and businessman – at the company he founded, BMNT Partners.