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“Don Valentine Interview,” Upside, May 1990.

Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

Take Palantir Technologies, “founded in 2004 by a handful of PayPal alumni and Stanford

Joel Gurin • Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)

Babak Nivi writes the excellent blog Venture Hacks and was an early Lean Startup evangelist: http://venturehacks.com/. He’s since gone on to create Angel List, which matches startups and investors around the world: http://angel.co/

Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital—and How to Get It

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Companies I’m Interested In — Neal Khosla

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Aggressive Overbids. The Vision Fund is notorious for offering companies multiples more money at higher valuations than they were planning on raising and threatening to invest in competitors instead if they said no. If a company set out to raise $250 million, Masa asked them what they’d do if they had a billion. This elbowed out other investors and... See more

Packy McCormick • Masa Madness

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At the Veterans Health Administration, Ken Kizer, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, inherited an antiquated, inefficient health-care system. The VA faced changes in its client population, the competitive healthcare environment, and modalities for delivering care.2 In just five years, Kizer instituted an electronic medical record system, made struc