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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

All of these stories are useful for recruiting, internal alignment, and business development—they really serve as analogies for different types of startups. If you can tell these stories well, it will be a huge weapon in your startup’s arsenal. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce?

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Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate

Venture Chronicles

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Is your new startup targeting auctions? … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. . The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. They are nerds. Expo SF (May.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley.

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The 4 Critical Challenges of Tech Startup PR

ReadWriteStart

Image is the bedrock part of the “fake it till you make it” culture that animates most of Silicon Valley today. Here are four critical challenges of tech startup PR. Technology industry startups have to pay more attention to their image than most other companies do.

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