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A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network

Feld Thoughts

As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship. We also review their leadership and mentor pool to ensure value.

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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital.

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To Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising or to Not Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising? That is the Question.

This is going to be BIG.

Actually, I tend to lean more on the relationship building side, for a couple of reasons. You think you're getting this big fat check compared to the seed money you raised, but they're actually doing something more like dipping their toes in the water. Well, it all depends, right? It's less signal than you think.