Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Our fund (Upfront Ventures) recently returned >1x an entire $200 million fund just selling small minatory in secondary sales while still holding most of our stock for an ultimate public market exits. he promised me he’d drop Corp Dev knowledge), who along with Aditi Maliwal (runs our FinTech practice) will be based in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. Next Tuesday, October 22 at 10a PT, we’ll take a look at this advanced entrepreneurship question.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. Way to go San Francisco! Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. There is no “big break” Not in comedy, and not in startups – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Sheryl Sandberg leans in? Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. She had previously acquired UrbanSpoon. Now she was tasked with running it. She was a young mom back then. Kara perfected that. Always meeting her product ship dates. Getting involved with political events and fund raisers.

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Haiti San Francisco Startup Turkey 398

keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

For example: Don’t accept equity compensation (stock shares) without knowing the percentage of the company you’ll own. And they gave me a choice whether I’d want more stock or a higher salary.” Kirk flew into San Francisco from Seattle on that Friday, so he could talk to the founders in person. Me: “Cool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Contrast this with other high-risk situations, like buying a high-risk stock. Although the specific payoff of a specific risky stock is not known, investing in many such stocks can be modeled accurately. Thus a decent financial advisor can give you a reasonably accurate long-term expected return for a set of risky stocks.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. When small fluctuations in stock value changed from 12.5¢ down to 1¢, the meaning of small stock got smaller.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this year’s Lean Startup Week. 6 in San Francisco, we’ve got a pass for everyone. In the evening, we’ll have a Halloween-themed Lean Startup Night happy hour.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

You see, part of my HomeAway compensation is in the form of Expedia stock ( $EXPE ), so it is in my personal interest to fill our talent pipeline with the absolute best product management candidates the world over. One essential element of communication is leveraging data. It’s not that compelling to state “I believe X to be true.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She and Raylene Young, who you'll hear in a minute, have collaborated to form the USDR, The United States Digital Response, activating an entire network of government technologists, lean and agile practitioners, to bring them together with state and local governments solving problems of immediate need. Raylene Yung : I live in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2016

When you join the Fulfillment by Amazon program, you no longer have to worry about having access to warehouse-like space to store all your stock. See Also: Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Beyond renting out warehouse space—an expensive endeavor—what are your options? Amazon to the rescue!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

Not for the stock options — you won’t be doling out 1% of the company to anyone by then. You might already know about “Five Whys” from Lean Startup, a method for determining root causes of problems and generating ideas for incremental improvement. But why will the 50th employee join ? The Five Whys?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Livelys launch was marred by zillions of sex chat rooms, with people spending hours and hours trying to figure out how to use Livelys stock animations to make their avatars do things that looked kinky. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? for most seed investments, investors will put more stock in the person and the traction they get with the resources at hand.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. The graphic is a map of “Tech Hot Spots” printed in the San Francisco Business Times (21-27 February 2014).

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

of San Francisco-based, VC-backed startup Expensify wrote a post on the company’s blog about why he considers.NET experience on a resume a general liability, saying that it will ‘definitely raise questions’ when screening for developers in his [.]. Expensify Awarded “Hottest San Francisco Company” Award.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So I think it's good to take stock of what has happened. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. One of my old Lean Startup sayings is that metrics are people too, and it came up in my conversation with Brian Chesky, too. It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible.

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