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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Regional Angel funds that pool investors capital and typically make a one time investment in a startup, sometimes at an early stage but often at a slightly later stage. Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals. Large regionally based early stage funds have mostly failed.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ExitRound helps early stage companies identify buyers.

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Is Your VC Founder Friendly?

Steve Blank

What startup stage do they typically invest in? Do they “get&# Customer Development ? What Startup Stage Do they Invest In? Certain VC’s like the new class of Super-Angels and small VC funds specialize in the early stage of a startup where you are searching for a business model. Is Your VC Founder Friendly?

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? This is actually a hard case to make, because most of the benefits of small batches are counter-intuitive.

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The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table?

Version One Ventures

Some of the best later-stage investors walk founders through an institutionalized “reverse” pitch. Are you looking for help and expertise in hiring, product strategy, customer development, fundraising, coaching, therapy, etc.? How do you decide who you should have in your cap table? What is important to you?

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

In order to prevent people from bunching up in the later stages of the work pipeline, those leaders need to be focused on automation and continuous improvement. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Make sure you keep track of whether thats happening.

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Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program

Startup Lessons Learned

However, this financial bar has had the effect of excluding one segment of potential customers that Id really like to see there - early stage entrepreneurs who have all the intelligence and vision of their later stage counterparts, but simply cannot afford the cash flow to attend.

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