VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? Tougher times might be coming ahead. Keep your head up!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Each MVP is like a ratchet tooth or belay anchor that keeps the work from going backward, while enabling me to generate greater momentum for the next, more ambitious reach.” Khalid Smith , co-founder of LessonCast, will be speaking at the conference about concrete things small startups can do to reach product-market fit with B2C customers.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

The most common (and emotional) screwing you’ll get in a startup is via your cofounders. First, some examples: A buddy of mine had done the hard work of finding two excellent tech cofounders. It’s not just cofounders. Investors can delay until you’re desperate and then ratchet the terms. ” Etc etc.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Real estate was previously a huge headache for small businesses before WeWork made co-working mainstream. Sometimes they have various ratchets and other bells and whistles that protect their downside further, like when Square IPO’d. One thing is for sure—there does seem to be a lot of hair on this deal.

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