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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us.

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The Battle for AI Gravity

Tomasz Tunguz

Open & closed ; small/medium/large ; models built for images or code or text ; all of these are in rapid development. ” Better for large enterprises to wait until there’s a reference architecture that’s been proven to work. The proliferation of different model types has created a cornucopia of choice.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

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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Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys

TechCrunch

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. Image Credits: Akeyless. billion by 2025.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Offensive bets typically deliver paybacks as business growth, product features, and developments that unlock new markets or consumer spend.

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Vesey Ventures closes on $78M debut fund to back early-stage fintech startups

TechCrunch

The firm says its intent is to go beyond term sheets to issuing bespoke “Strategy Sheets,” which outline how Vesey Ventures aims to leverage its network “to act as a company’s first business development team.” And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. “In Want more fintech news in your inbox?

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Expeto, a startup selling tools to manage private cellular networks, raises $13M

TechCrunch

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. See Expeto , which is developing a platform that allows corporate customers to extend their private networks via virtually any type of cellular connectivity.