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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

He was part of the Sandbox network - a group of incredibly smart under 30 year olds.). They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. Consumer Facing B2C. For e.g. platforms, market places, aggregators, advertising networks… chances are you are a B2B2C company. Indonesia from day one.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. No-brainer for B2B companies but also for B2C companies (making special advertising deals for example) Reply steveblank , on June 8, 2011 at 9:05 am said: Martin, Any suggestions?