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A guide for developing an executive summary for the business plan of a technology-based business, with the primary objective of garnering investor interest. See all startup documents
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Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments . Maples Investments is the only venture investor I know who has oriented their entire strategy to lean startups. They've invested in many great companies , including IMVU , Digg , Kongregate , Twitter ... you get the idea. I really enjoy working with them and their companies. Steve and I worked to find a metaphor that would help explain the power of lean startups, and why they have a serious competitive advantage, especially in these challenging economic times.
Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments
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For over 25 years, Accel and its entrepreneurs have shared a common vision: be first. First to see the opportunity, first to define a category, and first to transform the industry.
Founders Fund
Are there any real technologies left to develop, or have we reached the end of the line, a sort of technological equivalent end of history? Once every last retailer migrates onto the Internet, will that be it? At Founders Fund, we vigorously reject this notion, and support the principle that human creativity and technical ability can build a better future for all humanity.
Going to Raise VC? Here’s a Primer on Process, People & Powerpoint Deck | Both Sides of the Table
If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close. All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC ” tab) 1. Will a VC sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement)?
500 Startups: Blowing up Startups Since 2010
500 Startups is a new kind of seed fund and startup accelerator. We believe successful internet startups are born from usable design, customer-focused metrics, and online distribution. LEARN MOREIt's been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. After a full day of talking, debating, thinking, and strategizing, we feel about read to take some good old-fashioned action. Will you join us? In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.
Lessons Learned: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet
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Venture Capital (VC) Blog Directory – 2011 Edition « Thinking About Thinking
This list includes other VC blogs that didn’t make the primary directory for one of the following reasons: (1) They don’t have any Q410 Compete data due to insufficient traffic, (2) There was insufficient data on the blog subdomain, or (3) They are a hybrid blog/corporate website meaning the actual blog traffic is hard to decipher. They are in no particular order.
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Continuing our series on The Board Of Directors , this week I'll talk about the role of the Board Chair. The Board Chair runs the Board Of Directors. He or she is a Board member with the same roles and responsibilities as the other Board members.Recently I read through the biography of Steve Jobs, authored by the wonderful Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute (as you may know, I have the deep honor of being a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and have had the unique pleasure of interacting with Walter over the past ten years, and greatly admire his ability to capture complex lives in written form). Walter takes the reader on a page-turning odyssey of the man Steve Jobs and the companies he created (Apple, Next, Pixar, and then Apple again). We are offered a rare glimpse into the life of one our generation’s most mythic figures. As an owner back in 1986 of a first generation Mac , all the way to being the CEO of a company in 2012 developing a service running on the iOS platform, I did not need the biography to tell me that Steve Jobs had a gift for bringing technology to the masses.
Reader - Israeli VC Blogs
A famous story in artificial intelligence is how the US military developed algorithms to determine whether an image had a tank in it. They used a standard machine learning method: feed the computer a “training set” of photos, some of which had tanks in them and some of which didn’t, and let algorithms identify which features in the photos correlated to tanks being shown. This method worked for a while but then mysteriously stopped working. Since the features the computer identified were embedded in complicated mathematical equations, no one could figure out what it was really doing and therefore why it stopped working. Eventually someone realized that in the training set, all of the images with tanks were taken on a cloudy day, and all the images without tanks were taken on a sunny day. The algorithms had fixated on the most obvious pattern – the color of the sky.
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On my run this morning along the Charles River, I decided I was finally recovered from my 50 mile run on 4/7/12. The end of my run brought me by the Hatch Shell and I smiled, even though it was muggy, cloudy, and there were too many people around. I’m now sitting in the Ritz Bar (they now call it the Taj, but that doesn’t work for me) a few hours later with Amy doing some writing while she reads. I took a break and decided to write up how the last seven weeks have been for me emotionally. Basically, they’ve sucked.Mar 20 2012 The question of how we handle companies within the portfolio company hiring from each other has come up a number of times recently and we thought it would be a good idea to hit the subject head on, publicly. With over 40 companies in the Foundry portfolio, and with many of these companies concentrated in specific geographies (in particular Boulder, San Francisco, Seattle and New York) there are often times when an employee from one company in which Foundry has an investment applies for a job or is approached by another company in which Foundry has an investment.
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