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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

I think VCs will gravitate even more towards repeat founders with prior success, and will be more gun shy about backing someone that is difficult to reference within their networks. Business Models and Sectors. I think the level of signaling risk from series A VCs doing seeds will be higher in a FOLD world.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? . -

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Because the new CEO had built a team capable of and comfortable with executing an existing business model, the company would fail or get acquired. provide experienced and hands-on mentorship; and offer a growing network of founding CEOs.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Because I have an unfair advantage in my network, because I’ve invested in blogging for three years. Because through speaking around the world and mentoring at Capital Factory I’ve earned an amazing network of advisors. Can you just copy that? So all that crap isn’t necessary anyway. Lots of steps will do just fine.

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How To Create A Startup Company While Attending College

YoungUpstarts

Creating a business venture while in college offers you the huge advantage of networking with other like-minded students. Even as social media, email, and phone calls make it easier to network from any location globally, physical interactions are great for choosing the best teams and volunteers. Find A Business Mentor.

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