A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 5, 2020

Let’s say you have an insight on how to use video to deliver education to young people to significantly improve learning. These are two very different “go to market” strategies, they imply two very different business models, and they will result in very different long term market positions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2017

My dad is a liver transplant surgeon and one of the most educated people I’ve ever known. Maybe it’s because the education system isn’t suited to aspiring entrepreneurs. It’s based on a rigid framework that stifles the free flow of creativity that’s essential to success. and EO Vancouver member. Get the Most Out of Every Day.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Tensions between educators and NYC officials grew over the past few weeks, as school openings were delayed twice and staffing shortages continue. According to the National Center for Education Statistics , a teacher who works in Mississippi makes an average of $45,574 annually, while a teacher in New York makes an average of $82,282 annually.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2023

I was reminded of this before the holidays during a trip to Boston, US, to spend an immersive week with the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) at Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program , which focuses on Inspiring Entrepreneurial Strategy. Teams, systems and processes all need to adjust when a business grows.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Global growth of sustainable investing strategies 2016-2020 (The 2020 GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT REVIEW by Global Sustainable Investment Alliance) This wave of change is sweeping across various stakeholders. Moreover, governments worldwide are laying down frameworks for ESG-related protocols.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Growth and marketing expert Susan Su is joining us at TC Early Stage in July to lead a session on key strategies for finding the right users in 2021. She’ll go over how to test and bootstrap early on, develop basic frameworks for growth and how to adapt your approach for each marketing channel as they evolve.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Every level of education was forced online by the pandemic this year, at least temporarily. While the children might be back in the classroom already, higher education and corporate education are still booming remotely. How to price your SaaS product for a bottoms-up growth strategy. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Having a sustainable and systematic customer acquisition strategy is an essential component of success for any organization, especially as a startup. If you have a product or service to sell, you need a customer acquisition strategy. A good strategy will help you grow in a targeted and cost-effective way to attract the right customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2014

Next, the startup begins to expand to more and more direct response advertising channels and pursue the same strategy. At a certain point, the marginal returns of continued investment in bottom-of-the-funnel customer acquisition strategies begins to winnow.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

These can be policy makers, entrepreneurs, students, incubator managers and staff, universities, professors, educators and researchers, or just citizens. I am a professor in entrepreneurship and educate students to this reflection and contribute to the development of an entrepreneurial culture and mindset. Theodoraki, C., Messeghem, K.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. Regardless of the outcome, be prepared with a strategy. The focus is mostly around marketing, because this is where so many startups fail.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Best practices for leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning in 2023 Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway Image Credits: Getty Images It’s critical to make every dollar count in this environment, but pulling back too much in the wrong places can reduce momentum across your entire organization.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2018

She described the purpose, strategy and tactics of a marketing department remarkably succinctly. Then create marketing content to educate each of these personas about the benefits of the future, through the key parts of the customer journey. Recently, I met an exceptional marketer. Marketing’s methods can seem intangible.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I wanted GSA to give me a framework for a signature talk and help me understand what topic and how best to present on it. Right now, I am finalizing an online course for aspiring speakers and presenters in the fitness industry, available to over 100,000 people for continuing education credits! It did exactly that!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

It plans to have both the active and passive products built with the same user interface so that investors “can use both strategies in the same place, rather than having the fragmented, multi-platform experience that is the norm today,” said Polhamus, who is the former CTO of Mexican fintech Credijusto.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Either way, it often involves educating the founders about the job to be done. So for example, when they want to explore a potential new customer market or introduce a freemium strategy. Often I will work with marketers who’ve never worked in a startup and they can bounce ideas or strategies off me. You can’t just replicate.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 13, 2022

The support from these prominent investors is a recognition of GoImpact’s unique strategy in driving ESG adoption in Asia, and closing the knowledge gap in ESG and Sustainable Finance, the company said. Its learning framework includes synchronized and asynchronized learning programmes and workshops.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Gender gap in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education . It also describes how gender differences can manifest at the different stages of an acceleration program and explores solutions, best practices, and strategies to overcome them.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Too many well-funded teams are lighting VC dollars on fire with strategies that neither reach their target audience nor deliver cost effective acquisition?—?funding Here are two Web3 user acquisition strategies that, if done properly, can be a great area of focus on when the market is down.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

If I were asked to create a content marketing strategy for a person or a business from scratch, I would craft a strategy with three dimensions: customer segments, customer lifecycle stage and content type. Content marketing efforts must reflect the core strategy of the business and prioritize the most important few segments.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

You’ll also get a chance to explore common mistakes and strategies for troubleshooting so you can build off of Tom’s Dream Team experience instead of starting from square one. He began his career in nonprofit education, first as a classroom teacher and then with charter school networks, scaling marketing and operations to fuel growth.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

Someone who scopes out, provides strategy, and knows how to support, cheerlead, and provide sweat-equity to work toward collaborative economic development goals.” They uplift the entire community through education (experiential and classical) that allows the community to effectively communicate with each other and the external world.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

So, if you get a bunch of engineers in a room for example, if they need to do a web project, you can count the seconds before the discussion on frameworks come up. Marco: So, at the very beginning, we introduced our digital strategy tenets, if you remember, and one of them was look outside first before you build. Always a pleasure.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The complete guide to finding truly special talent Image by author Suppose you want to digitize your business “for real”, where you have a sensible digital strategy and development of existing teams and recruit the digital stars who can close the gaps you have internally. In that case, several different criteria apply. are discussed below.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Federal Trade Commission’s Data Breach Response Guide and Department of Justice’s Best Practices for Victim Response and Reporting of Cyber Incidents guide will help you identify some response strategies. It does so by offering interactive training based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. 7 Things to Know.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Michelle Pontvert , Online Business Strategist and Educator, Michelle Pontvert Unbundle for Niche Market Success With my personal software companies, I’m all in on unbundling. The last step is creating a detailed business plan, which includes a marketing strategy and growth plan. The MVP Approach.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

“I think the really key thing is to recognize it, find a strategy to work with it, and don’t let it build to a point where it just feels like you’re going to take a massive hit on productivity.”. Any suggestions on strategies and how to help our company stand out? Dear Sophie, My co-founders and I have an early-stage startup.

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Red Rocket

AUGUST 3, 2021

In fact, they can be traced back to a framework called Management By Objectives (MBO), which was used in the 1970’s. Since then, they’ve become a mainstream way of setting goals and managing growth with Google being the most famous of the companies that use the framework. There is a simplicity to OKRs that is really attractive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

In 2019, the Malaysian government also issued its Shared Prosperity Vision 2030, a 10-year framework for restructuring its economy that includes building an Islamic fintech hub as a key part of its strategy. was educating investors. Barriers exist in other aspects of the space, too. So that was a challenge.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Even if the details are very hazy, price demand curves are useful tools to inform product strategy and prioritization. They change with the introduction of new features, sales efforts in educating the market and entry of competitors, among other factors. To make PD curves useful requires marketing research.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 7, 2024

With over 20 years of experience spanning data science, AI development, and business strategy, Jon has carved out a niche in transforming how industries like Defense and Energy leverage data to make strategic decisions. Another challenge has been market education. How can our readers follow you on social media?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

On some advertising platforms in China, foreign companies cannot create an advertising office, especially if your company is related to education. Within the framework of collecting information, we realized that it is Asia, in principle, that is the current market driver for Ed-Tech’s growth, mostly China and India.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

at least to start with, and especially if there is an opportunity for “land and expand” sales strategies. Monica and Joe kept working for a few more days fine-tuning the pricing framework until they were comfortable enough to share their work with the board. Let’s see what the board says!” Yet, most companies use cost-plus pricing.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 11, 2024

The result was a more cautious acquisition strategy, impacting both the volume and value of deals made. The Top Five M&A Deals of 2023 In a year of recalibrated strategies and selective deal-making, several standout M&A transactions emerged as reported by PitchBook. Which Sectors Could See a Boost in M&A Activity in 2024?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

We have developed deep expertise in libraries and frameworks that assist with our data science practice. This has been a successful strategy and we are likely to continue building such products in the future as well. When people do leave, it’s usually for opportunities outside the country or ambitions like higher education.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2014

This is the framework I’ve seen work well for freemium startups. At its core, freemium is a novel marketing tactic that entices new users and ultimately potential customers to try a product and educate themselves about its benefits on their own. Piotr asked this question earlier this week.

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