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The Changing Venture Landscape

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We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. Hot, Flat & Crowded.” By definition?—?I’m

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

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I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California.

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

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Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. That was the implicit statement.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

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If you look at what you go through, starting high school, and maybe even middle or grade school, you go through your educational life managing courses, relationships with your teachers, and relationships with your parents. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. I has been asked to do the keynote speech at a dinner that night but of course hadn’t written a speech in advance. Get some seasoned entrepreneurs to come. We rise to the occasion as it stirs our creative juices.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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But of course all of these things are intertwined. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. Empowerment is hard for most startup entrepreneurs.

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