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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

Both Sides of the Table

“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.”

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

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2020 Accel Euroscape: Decacorn Unleashed

Cracking the Code

You'll find more analyses on the 2020 winners in the full presentation A strange year: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… While many lights are green, it’s hard to ignore the fact that COVID-19 has changed the lives of billions of people. The data analytics category is showing early promise with many companies in the space.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day).

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. And as we looked at that and had discussions and examined what that meant, it really meant distributing the sense of ownership, just pushing it out and opening it up and trying to enable anyone else to do this as well.

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Startup Resources

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Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? free, distributed source code control management system. About VC Cafe.