Venture Hacks

“Lean startups are built from the ground up for learning about customers.”
– Eric Ries
I recently sat in on Eric Ries’ presentation on lean startups at Berkeley. The slides and audio are below. The presentation is about one hour long and it is gold.

Audio: The Lean Startup (mp3)

Slides: The Lean Startup (pdf)
The audience consisted of students [...]

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We’ve updated the presentation in A quick and dirty guide to starting up. The new presentation includes the notes that accompany each slide.
I’ve also included the new presentation below. Watch it in full screen mode for maximum pleasure. The full screen button is at the bottom right of the embed and it looks like this: [...]

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We’ve updated the presentation in Our top 10 term sheet hacks. The new presentation includes the notes that accompany each slide.
I’ve also included the new presentation below. Watch it in full screen mode for maximum pleasure. The full screen button is at the bottom right of the embed and it looks like this: .

(Slides: [...]

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“In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.”
– Steve Blank
Summary: In Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank lays out a customer development process that complements a startup’s product development process. This post includes video and slides where Steve explains the ideas in his book.
About a year and a half ago, Marc [...]

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Naval recently presented A Quick and Dirty Guide to Starting Up to Girls In Tech:

(Slides: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Starting Up (pdf))
Here are some of my favorite quotes from the presentation:
“We are faced with insurmountable opportunities.” – Pogo
The most important thing: idea intelligence connections experience determination.
Ideas, and therefore NDAs, are worthless.
“… as in [...]

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Venture Hacker Naval Ravikant recently presented our top 10 term sheet hacks at Startup2Startup:

(Slides: Top 10 Term Sheet Hacks (pdf))
Naval’s slides are a must-read—and a great summary of our detailed hacks.
Slideshare has a transcript of the slides on a single page if you don’t want to flip through the presentation (scroll to the bottom of [...]

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