Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. avoid being diluted).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan. For those of you who don’t know, business plan competitions are held by universities who get their students to enter and compete to see who has the best business idea.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. Kushim manages your deal flow and track portfolio performance.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. This is lean development without any customer development.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 28, 2011

Eric Reis has covered the implications around this extensively and described these new ventures as " lean startups." One of the key principals of going lean is to get meaningful customer feedback as quickly as possible often by developing a minimally viable product. I continue to be shocked how competitive this is becoming.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 10, 2012

This entry in my "deal flow" journal records my first, inauspicious impressions of Twitter when I initially heard about it. And I love that the toolkit for startups is getting sharper and that techniques like the Lean Start Up methodology and terms like "hypotehesis testing" and " MVP " are becoming common place.

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