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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. The core team — a cross-functional team who could make all the business and technical decisions within a set envelop ? We did a quick overview of the product.

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. And in order to increase our groups returns, one of our goals should be to get more people and man hours involved in the diligence process.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Welcome to Small Business Labs. Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Small Business Blogs. New Communications Review.

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

Professor VC

Dan Frommer, in Moneyball for tech startups , interviewed Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham and Ben Horowitz on the topic. And given that four of the most important tech investors in the world seem skeptical of it, if someone can figure out a good formula that works, they may be able to exploit it". How Much Diligence is Due.

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ProfessorVC: Buyer's Remorse

Professor VC

Of course, rigorous diligence is performed, the team is challenged, and assumptions are tested. I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. How Much Diligence is Due. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Newer Post.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

With that in mind, I created a new course at San Jose State last year, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). How Much Diligence is Due. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ► February. (1).