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DECEMBER 5, 2022

These are the first marketing images of an upcoming movie that I star in with my daughter Mirren about an aging superhero that is absolutely too old for this s**t that winds up having to save some mystical star child. Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. Enthusiasts will tell you that this is the beginning of being able to insert yourself into video games, recreate scenes of things that happen to you in the pa

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Employee burnout figures are on the rise, a fact that no company should ignore. According to Gallup research from 2021, nearly three-quarters of all employees report sometimes feeling burned out. And that’s not good for them or their organizations. Yet burnout isn’t inevitable, including among frontline employees. Frontline workers tend to be especially susceptible to burnout.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education told us that ChatGPT has effectively ended the essay as a way for teachers to assess student progress. It will be easier for a student to prompt ChatGPT to write the essay than to write it themselves.

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The Seraf Compass

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Superstar, cult-like CEOs make for great press. How many times have you read an article about Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg that makes it sound like their companies’ success rested entirely on their shoulders? It makes for a compelling human story, but these are myths. That is not how the world works. Without a great supporting team, these CEOs could never deliver on their promised vision.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. To end the year, let’s continue to return to columns that I wrote that have aged, well, interestingly. In July, I wrote about how Y Combinator is building a Product Hunt, Product Hunt is building an Andreessen Horowitz and Andreessen Horowitz is building a Y Combinator.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 7, 2022

2022 brought new connections and perspectives as we met with entrepreneurs, portfolio companies, and ecosystem builders on the ground in startup communities across the country. [link] Our travels and our portfolio inevitably inspire our gift-giving strategy every year. So this holiday season, we’ve compiled a cross-country guide of Revolution-backed brands to shop and share with your friends and family this winter.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC. It is the highlight of the annual Computer Science Education Week which is the first week of December, which is this week. Yesterday Marco Argenti, Goldman Sachs’ CIO, and I went with NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks to the Hospitality Management High School in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan to do an Hour of Code with the students there.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Profitability or net income margin has become the most important correlate to public software company valuations. But public companies are less profitable today than a year ago. Surprisingly, PLG companies’ profitability has suffered more than sales-led businesses. Across every quartile, public software & infrastructure companies have seen a 5 percentage point drop in net income since Covid.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When Ankur Nagpal sold Teachable for a quarter of a billion dollars , he felt lucky. Then, he quickly felt lost when trying to navigate the financial systems of a country he wasn’t born in and learn the institutional language often only spoken fluently by the historically wealthy. It would be a few years of self-employment, and building a venture firm later, before Nagpal returned to the moment as one of the early catalysts for his newest startup, Ocho.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Attention aspiring entrepreneurs! Are you passionate about using generative AI to create innovative products and services? Do you have a great idea that you're looking to bring to life, but you're still missing the perfect co-founder to make it happen? YC is excited to announce our first-ever generative AI themed co-founder meetup, happening virtually on Saturday, December 17th at 11am-1pm PST.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Convertible notes are a great tool for venture financing. They are primarily used for early-stage financings, but they are also a good solution for a bridge round when a company isn’t quite ready for the next equity financing round. The actual mechanics of converting convertible notes (in other words – calculating conversion shares) is not a simple task and requires great care.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 8, 2022

If you believe your TAM is 500 million when it’s actually 50 thousand, then you’re looking in the wrong places. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e., AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., text, images, audio) based on what they learned while “training” on a specific set of data.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Behind many of life’s most important financial transactions — be it buying a house, applying for a mortgage, getting a small business loan, or refinancing a personal credit card — exist a network of trust and credit relationships. Billions of … The post Investing in Setpoint appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2022

How do you get your team to focus and move forward effectively? . A fellow CEO recently told me of her method of assuring positive movement within her team. She holds a weekly meeting of her direct reports and asks them to find three important but actionable items for the group to work on if not complete during the following week. This works for live meetings or those using video team meetings.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Welcome to another edition of our newsletter! You’ll receive practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss What startups can learn from trillion-dollar companies. The key pillars to starting a business. Let’s do this. Building a 15-person or a 1.5 million-person company? Read this Amazon grew from 1 to 1.5 million employees.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There’s a growing market for private cellular networks, or dedicated cell networks configured to support a company’s specific requirements within a confined area (think a warehouse or wind farm). For example, some mining and energy companies have adopted private cellular networks to help facilitate operations that span over significant distances, where the increased range of cellular offers advantages compared to the Wi-Fi alternatives.

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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Richard Liew talks to Tim Crown, Chair at Blackpearl Group (NZX: BPG) and Chair and Cofounder at NASDAQ listed Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT) about Blackpearl’s recent listing on the NZX, and Insight Enterprises journey from a $USD2000 startup to $USD10B in annual revenues. Wellington born technology company Blackpearl Group listed on the NZX Main Board under the ticker BPG on Friday 2 December.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register In partnership with Swiss-based investment holding company xMultiplied, Seedstars recently launched Seedstars Capital, an investment platform for emerging venture capital (VC) fund managers. Seedstars, in a statement, said that the platform partners with “emerging and diverse managers with local expertise and unique strategies and provides the necessary resources to launch new fund

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In just 10 simple steps, everyone has the ability to make at least $100 a day Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Zeraki , a Kenyan edtech that has built digital learning and school data analytics platforms, has raised $1.8 million seed funding in a round led by Acumen Fund, for product catalog growth and regional expansion. Save the Children Impact Investment Fund, Verdant Frontiers Fintech and Logos Ventures participated in the round, as did the Nairobi Business Angels Network (NaiBAN), and Melvyn Lubega, co-founder of Go1, an Australia-based edtech unicorn.

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GCUC

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Coworking Megatrends 2023 First and foremost, go back and read what I wrote last year because, quite frankly, it’s dead on. Give it a skim and come. Read More.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Chowis Company, a Skin and Hair & Scalp Diagnosis System Korean Company, has been named in the “ CES 2023 Innovation Award” for its AI full face diagnosis solution, “MySkin F.A.I.N.” Chowis’ mySkin F.A.I.N won in the “Digital Health” category as an AI full-face skin diagnosis solution that analyzes skin using AI algorithm technology.

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OkDork

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Jeff Bezos’ net worth is around $114 billion dollars right now , which isn’t the highest net worth he’s ever had. In previous years, Jeff Bezos has had a net worth of $150 billion , or even $200 billion! But since a lot of his net worth is tied up in his companies, it rises and falls with market fluctuations. With hundreds of billions of dollars to his name, you might think that Jeff is the richest person in the world right now—right?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

After four years operating primarily as a logistics marketplace, Egypt’s Voo has rebranded to SideUp and transformed its strategy to offer a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services, including payment gateways, API integration for shipping, warehousing, fulfillment, and advisory. The startup has also expanded to Saudi Arabia, where it will be headquartered henceforth, after raising $1.2 million seed funding.

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