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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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Interview with SendMeHome

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Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. Why not just write your phone number or information on an item? How do you get those items back? One, is it's anonymous.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In When assembling a team, I encourage entrepreneurs to seek out the MVPs, and look to build diversity into the teams they assemble.”.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We'll even write a half a million check. That as unhealthy. That's what I'm hoping to do.

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Why You Should Hire A Gaggle Of Interns At Your Startup - And It’s Not For An In-house Wait Staff Or Free Labor…

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Thus, entrepreneurs must consistently balance expanding their bandwidth via delegation with the more efficient, but non-scalable tendency to complete tasks themselves. In several cases, we eventually productized summer Intern projects, including a mobile version of GoToMyPC which we called PocketView. Rookie Draft.

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