Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. The product would leverage GPS and laser-based technologies and could be used on existing mower or farm equipment or built into new units. Unlike Groupon which offers one product deal per day chosen based on the customer’s location.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

OSEO validation in turn makes early-stage startups eligible for a variety of support services and funding options. OSEO can be involved during very early stage activities, such as business plan creation and feasibility studies. Vente-Privée is a retail site selling designer products at invitation-only online sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. In addition to off-the-shelf products, many VCs talk about their own proprietary systems. We use technology to enhance every stage of the early-stage investment process, from sourcing to evaluation to value-add.”.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. I joined Glossier because of all the things I hoped I would learn: about consumer businesses, the beauty industry, brand and community building, and beyond. Enter Box. They gave me a shot. Working at Box was a revelation.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

This is the “tastes great, less filling&# debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage. If you raise $10m for a company that is valued at $3.5m

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

They buy your product. Then they receive your product. With crowdfunding, the end product doesn’t even exist. Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Crowdfunding is painful.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Schwartzfarb describes “Sell More Faster” as the indispensable guide for entrepreneurs seeking product-market fit, building their sales team, developing a growth strategy and chasing accelerated, repeatable selling success. “I Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I first met Joe when he was working as a General Partner for Entrepreneur First , a Greylock -backed early stage tech fund which has gone on to raise and run $200 million in capital for start-ups, creating a global portfolio with an aggregate value of more than $2 billion. Increasing cooperation and collaboration between U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you first start a company, the corporate brand hasn't yet developed a reputation or any customer momentum, so most early-stage companies leverage the brands of the individuals involved for credibility. Aggregate and curate to reinforce. Refine your personal elevator pitch.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Some teams have produced surprising and delightful minimum viable products (MVPs) — one is a simple T-shirt, another is an app. What problem could they solve for them, and with what product? Would their product concept prompt potential customers to snatch it out of their hands and ask: Can I really have this, and how soon?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Some teams have produced surprising and delightful minimum viable products (MVPs) — one is a simple T-shirt, another is an app. What problem could they solve for them, and with what product? Would their product concept prompt potential customers to snatch it out of their hands and ask: Can I really have this, and how soon?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. They read reviews of the products of target investments. 1) Manage the firm .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Modern digital curators for early-stage entrepreneurs are the expert bloggers who put “content into context.” Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. These are great for understanding the big picture, spotting trends, and product reviews.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. This is unintentional and inevitable.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Despite the buzz among entrepreneur communities, various restrictions may make crowdfunding impractical for companies raising money and the intermediaries that facilitate the process. Other companies like Kickstarter offer rewards or facilitate the pre-purchase of products. More than $500,000: Audited financial statements.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. There are also others.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Mahatma Gandhi I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment is a laughable cause as compared to the rights that Ghandi (also a lawyer) fought to advance.  I’ve attached version 2.0 Second, they are simple.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

For a long time, they were basically the only game in town for seed and early stage funding in NYC. Not only has the NYC ecosystem changed, but the whole ecosystem around early and seed investing has innovated. What role, then, can angel groups most productively play? The Internet already does a pretty good job of that.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. I don’t know any developers. Need proof?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. Never in the history of venture capital have early stage startups had access to so much capital.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

We raised $6 million, the solution was sold to Netvision for $1 million before the product even existed. Media centers were a hot topic, and I used the XBOX media center to develop the product. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. Can you tell us about the product?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Eco-Products is the nation’s leading brand of single use food service products made from renewable and recycled resources. · TopSchool, Inc. TopSchool, Inc.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Eco-Products is the nation’s leading brand of single use food service products made from renewable and recycled resources. · Additional Colorado Representatives.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. We continue to incorporate the best elements of this feedback into our evolving SaaS success profile that follows below.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. One story is, “Hey, maybe there’s something to this Google+ product?”. It is a must have if you’re building a technology product these days.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. We’ve been using MongoDB as the backing store for Treasury , and over the course of two and a half months , we’ve had over 50,000 excellent Treasuries created by the Etsy community, all stored and served in MongoDB.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It started in college when I started my own music marketing and production company. After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. It’s a simple product, maybe many of you are familiar with it already that makes it really easy to basically no longer pay your bills by check.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Ning Communities. On-line Communities. Great for visualizing work of product development. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. agile product management and Scrum tool. Seed Startups.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

This will be the trigger to change everything, and will happen out of necessity, he believes, especially thanks to technology, which will also allow the most effective measurement of product impact. Tech products and services command a high profit margin of 12.4%. The Forecasted 2016 to 2026 job growth stands at 120%.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going.

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