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Steve
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as startups have been staying private longer, the landscape of private investors that now invest at the later stages of a private company’s development has increased
Scott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Slack for persistent chat, Google Docs for collaborative editing, Box for content management, BlueJeans for next-wave video technology.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
D'arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy
Venture capitalists create a narrative for founder fit just as they do for market fit. Why is this team doing this? Where are they coming from and where do they want to go? What motivates this team? One place to start this narrative is the origin story of the startup. What was the original idea and how did it come to fruition?
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
To be sure, it is those entrepreneurs—people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell in the personal computer era; Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg in the web era—who saw that this world driven by a passion for discovery and sharing could become the cradle of a new economy.
Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?
higher margin structure.