A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As Rebecca was developing her presentation, I wrote an email to her that said: when did we do Hacking Education? That may also be a useful reference, maybe at the start of the presentation. And our partner Rebecca gave a presentation on our eduction portfolio, which is now one of the strongest parts of our entire portfolio.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

This is especially the case when a solution doesn’t have many reference points and its significance may not be obvious. It also acts as a sales-enabling tool. My view is simple — some buyers could use a walkthrough of the buying process. Is it secure? How would you implement the technology? What does it replace, if anything?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s where we develop the understanding that success does not create happiness. In this way, we can enable mental health, expand emotional wellbeing and enhance human cognition at a scale never before possible. In Indian ancient wisdom traditions, this is referred to as your dharma. Happiness actually creates success.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements. Axelera and GigaSpaces are both developing in-memory hardware to accelerate AI workloads. sets of AI algorithms) while remaining scalable.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

But 15 years elapsed before he developed the system knowledge, as the owner of a successful trucking company, and the insight to transfer entire containers instead of individual crates and barrels. Experimentation enables you to transform a promising idea into a workable solution that addresses a real need. More grind than spark.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They develop a business model identifying the critical factors necessary for a sustainable business. A scalable business model refers to a framework that enables a company to increase revenue without a proportionate increase in operational costs. Eight components to successfully scaling a startup are presented in this article.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Performance marketing was once a steroid for company growth, enabling businesses to grow cost-efficiently as they only paid when they achieved desired outcomes. In response, brands are ruthlessly prioritizing results (or, at least, they should be) — especially when it comes to sales and marketing. Away from most headless commerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else. Or maybe you’re developing second screen viewing applications like GetGlue or building a YouTube studio to deliver low-cost content. Lines vs. Dots is all about people.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Price low to minimize adoption friction, grow quickly, and then move up-market after developing broad adoption. Skimming is less common in the software world because few startups develop a product at launch that will be accepted by the most sophisticated customers (and those willing to pay prices that generate the greatest margin).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Web3 developer infrastructure startup Alchemy, which last raised a $200 million Series C1 last February, has just made its first acquisition ever — and it’s in the education space. Alchemy, which aims to be the ‘de facto platform’ for developers to build on web3, is now valued at $10.2B.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, it’s crucial to recognize that solely counting the number of approved AI-enabled medicines is a lagging indicator of success, overlooking the expanse of treatments still in development (and the long time lag due to clinical trials). How does this future get realized?

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

New mothers, pet parents, gamers, developers — these are all groups of people that naturally unite around a shared interest/goal. These customers are highly engaged in the problem you’re solving for, and, in turn, constantly referring products and sharing information with their communities. A few strategies I’m bullish on below.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Kansas City, Missouri startup has closed a round of $24 million, a Series A that it will be using to continue developing its technology and to extend into a wider range of enterprise verticals. So he moved over from there into corporate development. (In With TripleBlind, the idea is that they no longer have to.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Kerry Wang told TechCrunch that she felt some interview processes didn’t enable enough time for them to fully demonstrate how they were different. The new funding will enable the company to make additional hires to double the size of the team next year, and invest in product development and its go-to marketing strategy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s a phenomenon Flux has been thinking about for a while now, beginning development in 2019 with a team of employees who worked at places like Apple, Facebook and NASA. The funding will go toward expanding Flux’s development team, investing R&D for additional features and increasing its marketing reach.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

million pre-seed funding to enable users grow their revenue streams through digital collectibles. Users will get token (Ayo) rewards when they buy the NFTs or refer people, which they can redeem later for an NFT. Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 Coinbase’s NFT marketplace is off to a lackluster start.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Unlike a lot of parents, she had access to engineers who could create a technology that enabled her, along with other members of Speach’s team, to make short videos that could quickly communicate important information and be viewed at the recipient’s convenience — as well as saved for future reference.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 28, 2022

Immutability refers to the fact that it cannot be modified or erased once a transaction is recorded on the blockchain. This feature enables improved efficiency and speed for businesses. It’s easier than ever to hire someone across the world to do your marketing, writing, development, digital advertising and more. Immutability.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Wiz does this by taking a modern approach to cloud security, giving companies full stack visibility into their environments on the cloud and workload layers and enabling them to identify and prioritize risks without any clunky agents. That’s why people love it. Within the first week, Wiz was already fixing things.”

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. Certain late-stage VCs have invested in some of my past funds, partly to motivate us to refer future investment opportunities to them.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. million to fuel its growth. ” It is not the only company in this wider area getting a lot of attention.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

The question is this: Are you building something essential at the core of your customer’s business, which Operator Collective founder and CEO Mallun Yen refers to as painkillers? Or are you building something less essential, which she calls vitamins? Painkillers versus vitamins.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

This space, so far, enables me to do that. We’ve also had some success in convening ecosystem actors to discuss and share programs, refer entrepreneurs, etc. Formal development opportunities around facilitation, communities of practice, and leadership are of interest. There are some positive signs today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

But Adept’s vision, at a high level, is to create what it refers to as an “AI teammate” trained to use a wide variety of different software tools and APIs. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. “Foundation model” is a bit jargony. Adept is running lean for now, with just 25 employees.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Now that we know that AI’s impact on many HR processes will continue to grow, what AI are we actually referring to, and how can it affect the employee experience? Establishing a rich data footprint will enable organizations to use AI to predict optimized compensation levels at an individual level. Recruitment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Indeed, many Canadians refer to Toronto as “east”’ despite there being 1,900 miles between Drake and The Weeknd’s hometown and St. Bird also pointed out that the Atlantic time zones are ideal, enabling effective communications with Europe as well as the rest of North America. Bird is also honest about the region’s shortcomings.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. The core problem Akeyless attempts to tackle is what Hareven refers to as “secret sprawl.” An abstracted view of the Akeyless secrets management dashboard. Image Credits: Akeyless. billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

They began developing a platform for small hotels to help them transition to digital and provide communication in a non-chronological order that is easier to access, enables discussion and can be searched. The new funding will be used to grow in development and bring additional engineering talent to the team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Alex Tabor, Paul Ascher and Juan Pascual met each other on the engineering team of Peixe Urbano, a company Tabor co-founded and he referred to as a “Groupon for Brazil.” While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The technology uses short-wave infrared (SWIR), which refers to a wavelength range that is outside the visible spectrum. Using SWIR and a proprietary illumination source also developed by TriEye, the company has built a sensor it calls sedar (spectrum enhanced detection and ranging). TriEye founders Uriel Levy, Avi Bakal, Omer Kapach.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

He said he adopted positive habits that enabled him to replace alcohol with nutrition and fitness. He is also working with one of his investors, Elevator Studios’ Fleyshman, who Chernow referred to as “the best marketer today.”. The idea for Kreatures of Habit stemmed from Chernow’s own life, celebrating 17 years of sobriety.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Several others said they started exploring the space after developing an interest in crypto. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

A smaller portion of rail freight movement is referred to as intermodal activity, which essentially involves moving steel containers between a range of different modes of transportation, like boats and trucks. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Hong Wang says that the funding will enable Akuity to expand the size of its workforce while contributing to the open source community. According to one recent survey (albeit commissioned by a Kubernetes tooling vendor), over a third of developers and architects admit that Kubernetes has become a major source of burnout.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

by Catherine Mitchell, VP of Product Development & Management at Cox Business. Digital transformation refers to adopting digital technology to move business processed from non-digital to digital – for example, moving data from an on-site server to the cloud or releasing an app for consumers to buy online and pickup in store (BOPIS).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

See Expeto , which is developing a platform that allows corporate customers to extend their private networks via virtually any type of cellular connectivity. Instead, it offers tools to enable companies to manage multiple private cellular networks, including 3G, 4G and 5G networks, from a single pane of glass.

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