TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amid market volatility, decentralized finance, or DeFi, is an area that continues to be in focus in both the crypto VC world and across the community as new use cases, protocols and projects arise. We surveyed: Michael Anderson , co-founder, Framework Ventures. Michael Anderson, co-founder, Framework Ventures.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In addition to discussing potential applications in advertising, fintech and enterprise apps, respondents shared their advice for web3 founders who are hunting for funding, along with their concerns about factors that could stall its development. In simple terms, decentralized finance will kick-start the great monetization of everything.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

Below, I’ve tried sharing our advice for managing your board – from how often to meet, to the materials you need – in order to ensure a useful and productive group discussion. Decision framework. ? Founders/CFO/Finance team:Outline topics and write/collect content to be covered. ? Managing Your Board. T-18 days. ?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 2, 2021

Open the pathway to people of different backgrounds and experiences You might think that a career in venture capital has to be driven by a background in finance. Without any prior finance expertise, she managed to break traditional barriers and enter the world of venture capital. But that’s not necessarily true.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The most common advice given to aspiring entrepreneurs is to start a business that ignites your passion. Here is a framework that can help you delve deeper into your quest to choose the right startup business: Self-Evaluation : What interests, hobbies, and passions do you have?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

I asked five early-stage investors to share frank advice for first-timers, and I’m going to save you some time: many (if not most) of you are probably not ready to pitch an investor. Please share one piece of advice that can help a first-time founder stand out from the rest. How much salary should the CEO of a pre-revenue startup take?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Venrock Vice President Todd Graham has some frank advice for founders at venture-backed startups: “It would be wise to generate a return at some point.” So here’s our advice on how teams can smoothly reach an SOC 3 while simultaneously balancing workloads and minimizing disruption to users.”.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Also, because the feedback loop is very long, the advice we give founders – to move fast and iterate – is hard to put into practice as a venture investor. As to the “it takes a long time” advice. That part can be learned! [ Lily Lyman / Underscore VC ] [Hunter: 100% regarding run your own playbook.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

That may seem strange advice for a new startup, but the economy is volatile and things change very fast. For instance, in health and finance, credibility and trust are critical. I find Clayton Christensen’s jobs to be done (JTBD) framework very powerful because it’s relevant to the product, marketing and strategy teams.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What often makes the framework challenging for companies seeking to fundraise is that each of the exemptions has its unique combination of conditions. Although the exemptions remain complex, the changes provide incremental improvement to the existing framework. Almost all of the new rules should become effective early next year.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But I found that early advice to be accurate: The first 10 employees are the most important aspect in the company’s life cycle – other than finding product-market fit – and recruiting has to be the founder’s priority. It was an all-encompassing process. The process still looks the same, however.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The poorest households describe a stark choice — between ‘heating or eating’ Into this grim maelstrom a new London-based startup, called Nous , is hoping to throw households a life-raft by offering a free personalized report that explains how price rises will affect their costs and gives advice on how to adapt to inflation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

” I have never used this space to offer advice, but if you believe you have a good idea for a startup — go for it. Because the field is still taking shape, there’s no single framework for managing such a project, and organizations need best practices like fish need water. Thanks very much for reading! Here are your options.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

But since I’ve never actually done those things, I would encourage you to ignore any advice I have to offer. Trusted advice comes from experience. If you have a great idea within the open-core framework, expect your risks to be much lower than with a traditional business structure. So you want to raise a Series A.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

.” So, then I met David Solomon at re:Invent, which is the AWS conference where he was speaking, and then we started to talk and it was pretty clear that Goldman had the same vision that, especially in the world of finance, technology will play a disproportionately important role. Because engineers they tend to start from the how.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2015

I called some a few other product managers I knew inside Google, and asked their advice. Each of these frameworks provides a negotiator a way of ensuring they win the points that are important to their startup, trading less important elements away, and to ensure the partnership is mutually beneficial. Founders negotiate every day.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. And we know that the chief people officer role, CHRO—unlike maybe finance or sales—entrepreneurs have a harder time understanding what that role is, right? The MOC Nolan Church: Yeah. And it completely blew my mind. Tell me what the priorities are.”

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In industries like defense and energy, there’s no room for error when it comes to data security, so we’ve had to build our platform with a Zero Trust framework that assures our clients of top-tier protection from the get-go. Another challenge has been market education. Lastly, invest in building a strong team and culture.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

His advice for companies considering an IPO? RIBS: The messaging framework for every company and product. ” RIBS: The messaging framework for every company and product. . ” RIBS: The messaging framework for every company and product. “Go public now.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Finally, the boards job is to vote on key considerations including budgets, financings, legal issues and on rare occasion?—?hiring At other times boards try to micro-manage details that should be left to management teams and therefore offer “helicopter advice” without having to actually own the results or knowing the daily idiosyncrasies.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. This move also undoubtedly created more inbound M&A opportunities for them. . 8) Monitor .

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

by Joe Wallin , leader of the Angel Capital Association Legal Advisory Council and Pricipal at the law firm of Carney Badley Spellman, P.S. Big Picture The CTA is intended to assist law enforcement in combatting money laundering, tax fraud, financing of terrorism, and other illicit activity through anonymous shell and front companies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marty Chavez, vice chairman and partner at Sixth Street Partners, about the foundational role he’s had in merging technology and finance throughout his career, and the magical promises and regulatory pitfalls of AI.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. For our content creation, we use tools such as Canva (graphic design) and GoToStage (webinars platform) to create and share content for prospects to find.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Indian crypto regulation : Under its G20 presidency, India has said it will look to prioritize the development of a framework for the global regulation of unbacked crypto assets, stablecoins and decentralized finance, writes Manish. Startups and VC. Recall this : Catherine writes that Recall.ai

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. The thing that was mystifying actually was when I was getting recruited by a fair number of companies to be a COO, some of them just had this version of, and this is advice to all of you, where they would basically say, “I just want to give you everything I hate.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

His initial advice? ” In a related article, Gregg Adkin, VP and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, shared the framework he’s developed for helping founders set up their board. “Investors love founder-CEOs, and founders are often fantastic candidates for this role.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’m looking for somebody who is good at planning but doesn’t try to do the work of the VP Finance. They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Investing in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Decentralized finance, commonly known as DeFi, is transforming the landscape of financial transactions by harnessing the potential of smart contracts within a peer-to-peer framework. But what approach should an investor take to participate in DeFi? Time horizons also play a role.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Manuela Seve a Brazilian-born, Los Angeles-based tech entrepreneur with a futurist mindset and a background in finance. framework will be responsible for adding millions of users to this new back-end through our communities across industries. The alphaa.io Personal Instagram: [link] Alphaa.io

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

million (~$2.1M) in pre-seed funding from a number of business angels, including Jens Lapinski (former TechStars Berlin MD and CEO of Angel Invest) and Jag Singh (also of TechStars Berlin and Angel Invest), along with a number of other angels in the banking/finance space, plus some (unnamed) founders chipping in.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 24, 2025

Say more about what that means (you cover some in your manifesto ) and how it influences your investment decision framework? I talk about my investment decision-making framework in detail here I focus on gaining an understanding of a persons motivation, spike, commercial aptitude, and how magnetic they are.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 17, 2025

Ours has always been small – just like our LP base in general – and weve worked with them in ways that are spelled out in our LPA (Limited Partnership Agreement) but also used them for advice, as the name suggests. We asked our LPAC about what frameworks theyve seen across their venture portfolios.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Impact Hub advocates for embedding sustainability into startup ecosystems by promoting circular economy principles, fostering collaborations, and ensuring access to green financing. Providing practical frameworks such as circular economy principles, impact measurement methodologies, and sustainable supply chain management.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 2, 2025

Before you assess your eligibility, we recommend gaining a good understanding of the regulatory framework to avoid wasted time and non-compliance. A bit like a mortgage broker or lawyer, a good grants advisor can help you to navigate this process.

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