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. Market Opportunity. We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. But what about markets?

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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. They were told this would offer greater choice and more opportunities to embed the most modern technology into their platform. Away from most headless commerce.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2024

There’s a robust correlation between success and having the ability to say “no” to opportunities that don’t serve you. Recognize the Power of No As I thought about the most successful entrepreneurs I know, I realized they say no to most “opportunities.” His answer rang a bell for me. Nothing else.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Your Startup’s Unit Economics Your pricing plan has to enable the company to become profitable at some point. Enables natural expansion : MongoDB and Ethereum, two database companies with nearly identical revenue trajectories through 2020, both employ usage-based models that have supported their explosive growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

It allows clients to integrate payment platforms (including Ubin), trading platforms and external software like user management systems, while enabling smart contracts and digital ledgers. This helps prevent “greenwashing,” a term that refers to making something seem more environmentally-friendly or sustainable than it really is.

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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

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

JULY 21, 2021

Gani later joined Hong as a co-founder to scale the business, as they realized there was a bigger opportunity for global e-commerce. Gani said he is excited to work with Eurazeo, which he referred to as “experts in building and scaling consumer brands.” For Richard, he came from a place where skincare was more culturally accepted.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This model enables the hardware community to come together and build and share reusable components like parts, simulator models, and reference schematics that can be forked and improved upon. In addition to funding, the service is also using the opportunity to launch in beta.

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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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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

All VCs, including us, regularly see investment opportunities which don’t fit our mandate. 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. Monetizing our deal flow. There are a number of VC funds (e.g., Calm Company.

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Revolution

JANUARY 6, 2020

And entrepreneurs see the opportunity, creating tools and services to help consumers stay fit. We are also seeing a dramatic change in the way in which consumers order and receive food, with healthier menus, biodegradable containers, technology-enabled ordering and delivery systems, including the creation of ghost kitchens.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

They saw Silicon Valley as a “tight-knit circle of insiders that continually got access to the best opportunities,” and wanted to build a firm that could essentially get in the trenches with its portfolio companies. Hisham Elhaddad, Onsi Sawiris and Fady Yacoub co-founded the venture capital firm in 2016 after emigrating to the U.S.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

As cloud adoption continues its incredible march from a $350B+ market today toward $1T in the next five years, and $3T over the next decade, 1 the opportunity to build the next iconic cybersecurity platform has arrived: Wiz , one of the global leaders in Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).

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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. The competition isn’t scaring investor away, though — no doubt because of the substantial market opportunity.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Ironically, that experience with our partners has given them the trust to become our clients and refer other clients as well. In essence, a well-strategized partnership can act as a force multiplier for new business opportunities. I refer them web-design clients, and in return, they refer me SEO clients.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It also includes machine-learning-based analytics to enable credit scoring and KYC verifications. Finantier was founded earlier this year by Diego Rojas, Keng Low and Edwin Kusuma, all of whom have experience building products for fintech companies, with the mission of enabling open finance in emerging markets.

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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? Depending on how effective an employee engages with training, AI can help find gaps and opportunities that traditional LMSs would miss. Recruitment.

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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

MARCH 21, 2022

Its 2017 acquisition of Black Forest Engineers, a custom signal processing chipmaker , enabled Luminar to bring down the cost of receivers from tens of thousands of dollars to $3. Luminar has already acquired the tech and teams for the other two legs of the stool.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Some have referred to the cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara as the “Silicon Valley of Latin America,” and while their tech sectors are also seeing tremendous growth, the pace falls short of Mexico’s talent production, leading to a surplus of highly trained and capable individuals in the tech sector. in technical talent. or in Canada.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

But former Google AI tech leader Tomas Vykruta is taking a different tack with EvolutionIQ , which works with insurers to analyze claimant data and third-party information to identify “high-opportunity” claims — specifically those involving bodily injury. ” Market opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

Every patient is provided a cellular enabled scale, an American Heart Association information book, exercise bands, a Bodytrace blood pressure cuff and a Garmin fitness tracker to help monitor and track their progress throughout the course. If a cardiac patient opts for at-home care, they are then referred to the Movn team.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Bosque – Bosque is the first tech-enabled, direct-to-consumer plant brand in Europe with digitized inventory, AR tech, and on-demand access to vetted plant experts. Wild Radish – Wild Radish enables people who love food and cooking to engage in Michelin-quality, unique, cooking and dining experiences at home.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Talents earn Outdefine’s crypto token for referring some friends, finding work, and contributing to the community. Their ability to work remotely enabled these talents to work flexibly and provide specialized skills to a variety of companies. Outdefine is working to address this gap by prioritizing talent growth and experience.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

Faire has modernized this process, enabling retailers to discover thousands of brands, purchase products online, get free returns on new orders, and finance their working capital. On the other side of the marketplace, Faire enables brands to find new customers, manage their existing customer base, and reduce their risk of non-payment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But all that opportunity also has a flip side: how can you say what you want, just how you want to say it, without technical hurdle after hurdle getting in your way? These days, the medium, as they say, is the message, and in that regard “publishing” has taken on a new meaning in the digital age.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

They enable governments to finance critical infrastructure, corporations to fund growth, and individuals to make life’s most important purchases. As the world’s most traded asset class, the fixed income markets are a pillar of our global economy. Fixed income, as an asset class, is in the midst of a dramatic market structure transformation.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Also referred to as spiritual economics, Zohonomics emphasizes investing in your talent to nurture them, especially in local communities. One can find talent everywhere, but opportunities are not everywhere. It focuses on humanity and works towards developing the human element more than the monetary one.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The opportunity is a big one, it seems. That opportunity appears to be a particularly keen one at the moment. For investors, the opportunity, especially right now with e-commerce playing such a big role for consumers, outweighs some of the above challenges, at least in these early days of the category.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There’s a high degree of referability amongst these user types,” he said. A goal of Contra’s, per Huffman, is to help independent workers create high-signal referral networks so they can land new opportunities and gigs. 5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I dove headfirst into the space when I understood that we’re in the midst of a cultural revolution enabled by technology — not the other way around. The individualism this basic feature enables over time explains the frenzied NFT market, which will undoubtedly remain a large part of web3 and the metaverse.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The machine learning model reads the sample spectra and send test results indicating the identity and the quality versus the reference. We believe that RxAll is bridging a major gap in access to quality healthcare in Africa by pioneering a drug delivery platform to enable pharmacies and patients to buy authenticated medicines online.

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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. Regardless, it’s true that tooling and services built around Kubernetes represent a massive opportunity. A 2021 poll from Canonical found that 45.6% billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Integral to this new direction is the use of crypto and decentralized finance to enable the company’s roadmap. During our conversation, I referred to Branch, a close competitor to Tala, and noted it was interesting both platforms concurrently thought to provide other services besides credit.

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