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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke briefly about why.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’ With positive feedback from his peers, Hoover decided to transform his email list into a website.

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The Big Opportunity for Bots in Messaging

Version One Ventures

As the first stage, we’re already seeing messaging bots that act as gateways or aggregators to existing services. However, the potential for such aggregators is rather limited, since there’s not much value add and most on-demand services will likely have their own messaging bots in the near future.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

just months after it came out of stealth. Israel produced three public cloud companies - Wix, Jfrog and Varonis - representing an aggregated market cap of more than $25b, c. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent. RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Metrics visible at a glance are number of customer interviews in the current week as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses, mentor and instructor engagements. This data gives a feel for the evidence and trajectory of the cohort as a whole and a top-level of view of each teams progress. Lessons Learned.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

It’s still in stealth but plans to make announcements soon. I just checked his LinkedIn profile and it’s not updated so I’m guessing he’s still in stealth mode so I can’t talk about what he’s doing. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs.