Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. With its software up and running, Gusto needed to figure out its go-to-market strategy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Vaidya said Leda Health’s Ethereum-powered mobile app gives survivors the choice to document their own accounts, using blockchain technology for time-stamping evidence collected in the kit, which puts power back in survivors’ hands. . We’ve also documented potential investors engaging with social media posts calling for us to be jailed.” .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. As you get ready for the next phase in the RFP Process, make sure you have documented the following: Comprehension: The RFP is clearly understood by you and your team. With leading a pitch end to end, the most important phase is often the Q&A.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

I am grateful and fortunate that I could solicit input on this article from several people, including Theresia Gouw and Mark Kraynak; a few of my partners at Acrew; Ed Zimmerman and Meredith Beuchaw from the law firm Lowenstein; Shan Aggarwal, VP of corporate development, Coinbase; and Art Levy, chief strategy officer at Brex.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 25, 2017

But as I went back last night and reread Porter’s Competitive Strategy, I was surprised to learn that Porter’s intended value chain analysis to be used also at the business unit and at the company level. A unique selling strategy (Salesforce). The more interesting of the two for startups is the company level.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

So, I would just spend a lot of time researching stuff, or in empty Word documents just never feeling satisfied with your output is a really dangerous– Craig Cannon [00:24:17] – Interesting. Craig Cannon [00:37:56] – Weird strategy. You can’t choose what you’re famous for, or whatever.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

And simultaneously, freemium marketing strategies blossomed. This threshold can be based on number of people using the product (Expensify), number of documents signed in a month (HelloSign), or additional product features needed by users (Yammer). This go-to-market strategy benefits FSEMs in three important ways.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

There’s a wealth of community knowledge and learning materials documented in forums, textbooks and tutorial videos. Therefore, as a GTM strategy and as a way to prove out the engine, we are likely to see the developer build the first game (or series of games) on top of the platform. Even Unity grew out of a failed game called Gooball.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

As Frederic writes, Amazon trained the system — which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python — on billions of lines of publicly available open source code and its own codebase, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums. Image Credits: Getty Images/dblight. On Monday, June 27 at 11:30 a.m. PT/2:30 p.m.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

What was the split between actual software features, versus content you had on the site to just help people get going, like documentation, et cetera? What’s fascinating to me about my mornings is those six startups, and they are startups, are all very much part of my life and have completely disrupted the incumbents in those space.

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