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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley, Herzliya in Israel, Zhongguancun for software and Shenzen for hardware in China are examples of technology clusters, but so was Detroit for cars, Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion.). For example, a few years ago Mercedes partnered with Tesla in batteries for electric vehicles.

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Some thoughts on building your team

BeyondVC

For example, if you have a network security startup, the obvious players will be other security companies that sell similar products at similar price points with a similar distribution channel. One concentric circle out from the bullseye could include networking companies that have a similar business model and distribution channel.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

Clips from their interviews are below: Wayne Sutton is a partner and co-founder of BUILDUP VC , a Bay Area non-profit that connects, mentors, and educates underrepresented technology entrepreneurs. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. … And download any of the past shows here.).

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Some thoughts on building your team

BeyondVC

For example, if you have a network security startup, the obvious players will be other security companies that sell similar products at similar price points with a similar distribution channel. One concentric circle out from the bullseye could include networking companies that have a similar business model and distribution channel.

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