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Failure and Redemption

Steve Blank

Redemption. Now when I listen to entrepreneurs who’ve cratered a company, I listen for their stories of failure and redemption. Six stages of failure and redemption. There were days I’d get up late and go to bed again at 5 pm. I lost interest in anything associated with my past industry. (To Lessons Learned.

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Failure and Redemption

Steve Blank

Redemption. Now when I listen to entrepreneurs who’ve cratered a company, I listen for their stories of failure and redemption. Six stages of failure and redemption. There were days I’d get up late and go to bed again at 5 pm. I lost interest in anything associated with my past industry. (To Lessons Learned.

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

After valuation in the video we went through Liquidation Preferences, Board Seats, Protective Provision, Voting Rights, Drag Along Rights, Redemption, Anti-Dilution and a few other key terms. I prefer to see no participation but this is a good compromise if you can’t get a straight 1x liquidation preference.

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Engineering spirals: 10 philosophies to facilitate innovation

The Next Web

Get busy living, or get busy dying” – Shawshank Redemption Building great engineering teams is difficult, but it is also increasingly important as the world in which we live is more than ever driven by software. Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the NPR API.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Reply links for 2009-09-07 « Blarney Fellow , on September 7, 2009 at 6:10 pm Said: [.]

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

You can’t just understand “redemption rights&# in theory. You need to own your legal agreements. You need to know how liquidations preferences work. You need to know how “tag along&# rights could potentially screw you. That’s why I love VentureHacks. And Brad Feld. This is a must read for all entrepreneurs.

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Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. 7 Best Practices, Bonus Tips

Occam's Razor

Use unique prices, promotions, coupons etc in your online marketing and then track the redemption of these through your offline (phone or retail) channels. Regardless of the redemption rates of coupons, many businesses find them to be very effective at tracking conversions offline. Not that hard.

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