Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At first, we primarily played an advocacy and convening role, working with policymakers and administrations , organizing bus tours, and telling the stories of the entrepreneurs we met along the way. In a rapidly evolving business landscape, founder-market-geography fit serves as a multifaceted framework for assessing a startup’s potential.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

An entrepreneur, global speaker and university instructor, she is on a mission to inspire entrepreneurs to stand out, speak up and be radically authentic. She is the co-founder of Brand of a Leader , the personal branding agency for entrepreneurs. I wasn’t sure of the formula for success, nor what topic I should present.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

While there is no right or wrong answer, having seen the extremes I’d like to offer you a framework for considering the right answer for yourselves. And I always encourage entrepreneurs to do reference checking. I love that. And it’s kind of true. The Perils of Many. Here’s my guide to how to do that.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry. Being problem-oriented prevents the anchoring effect (putting too much merit on an initial reference point) and confirmation bias (interpreting data to reinforce your opinion or solution).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

In this blog post, I share the ten habits that lead to success: Habit #1: Take Time to Learn Learning is a lifelong process, and successful entrepreneurs understand the importance of staying informed about the latest trends and developments in their industry. They make time to read, learn and stay up-to-date.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The study is backed by research, but pi Ventures’ founding partner Manish Singhal says its findings are also informed by conversations with entrepreneurs. ” A framework for inflection points. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Space tech – launch: customization to democratization.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Octane: EO Accelerator is EO’s program for first-stage entrepreneurs. I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. which helped cement our way of thinking and get a framework for planning goals. How did you hear about EO Accelerator? Discover EO today!

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer The Angel Capital Association’s continued advocacy toward harmonizing and simplifying the existing framework to improve capital raising pathways and expand investment opportunities has yielded successful results for U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The process of debating and agreeing the details of this startup ecosystem support framework is expected to take between six and nine months. And this key piece of the digital transformation puzzle is fully focused on entrepreneurs and investors. Spain’s government is gearing up to pass the country’s first ever startup law.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

The vast majority feel that making connections—connecting entrepreneurs to resources and stakeholders, and connecting the dots—is a primary attribute of who ecosystem builders are and what they do. “An ecosystem [builder] is a champion, resource, connector, and mentor for entrepreneurs, startups, and other ecosystem builders.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For today, we’ll refer to them simply as “studios.” Studios do this by using repeatable frameworks (imagine a factory) to test these ideas and back them with funding and resources in order to launch and grow powerful, scalable startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. market in the verticals of e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and software. The firm strategically went after a seed and pre-seed market that Lloreda said is going downstream.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in Their Business Journey. Early adopters expect that there will be bugs that need sorting out, and they’ll help identify and solve them and even help you develop an adequate user experience, which is why they’re referred to as design partners. The bottom line.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

If you cannot find a warm introduction to an investor who is proactively seeking to fund outstanding entrepreneurs, how are you going to win customers who are inundated with vendors seeking their business? A warm intro, particularly through a founder or colleague, is almost always the best way to connect with an investor.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In this chapter, we are going to look in more detail at the first step of the TUNED branding framework: think IP first. More than simply checking availability, think of IP as erecting “barriers to entry,” or as Warren Buffett refers to it: a moat around your business. You should not be confused for a competitor.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

As venture capitalist and economic historian Bill Janeway remarked : “… the federal government funded construction of a platform on which entrepreneurs and venture capitalists could dance.” Later, Nicholas refers to SBIR as a program that encouraged “technology prototyping.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

A technology executive and entrepreneur, board member and investor, she has 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon and Yodlee. I continued to listen to non-e-commerce pitches as well, simply to give myself a point of reference for evaluating online shopping opportunities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Led by Prosperity7 Ventures — a $1 billion venture fund created by Saudi oil giant Aramco (the name is a reference to the first commercial well to strike oil in the country) — the round also includes previous Chinese backers Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, and Yunqi Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Being an entrepreneur (and a salesperson), Molino asserts that his product, Predibase, is a solution to this — or at least a step toward one. Molino describes it as a “declarative” approach to AI development, borrowing a term from computer science that refers to code written to describe what a developer wishes to accomplish.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2012

It’s all thanks to you, bold entrepreneurs and intrepid founders who continue to chase big ideas, tackle challenging problems, dare to dream of disruption and innovation - and provide an unending supply of inspiration. Six-step framework to make strategic decisions. Anatomy of a Reference Check. All great managers are alike.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

As a VC and Board member, I am usually involved in this topic thanks to my experience as an entrepreneur and business operator. The economic value to the customer results from the value of differentiating attributes (value creators and inhibitors) minus the reference value to the customer. Let’s see what the board says!”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world, and its founder and CEO, Chinese Canadian billionaire Changpeng Zhao, is so well-known that he’s often referred to by his initials alone — “CZ.” But which crypto companies, protocols and projects will be compliant within the current regulatory framework? TechCrunch Crypto Pitch-Off.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

” Patrick Hymel, an entrepreneur in the health tech industry, wrote about the ways in which GPT-4 makes up references, facts and figures without any identifiable link to real sources. And Fast Company tested ChatGPT’s ability to summarize articles, finding it… quite bad.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Focused on delivering value to customers Faire’s mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Train your team to use experimentation frameworks. In the early days, we were building two to three features per week and it took us a couple of weeks to build the framework we needed around MySQL.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world, and its founder and CEO, Chinese Canadian billionaire Changpeng Zhao, is so well-known that he’s often referred to by his initials alone — “CZ.” But which crypto companies, protocols and projects will be compliant within the current regulatory framework? TechCrunch Crypto Pitch-Off.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world, and its founder and CEO, Chinese Canadian billionaire Changpeng Zhao, is so well-known that he’s often referred to by his initials alone — “CZ.” But which crypto companies, protocols and projects will be compliant within the current regulatory framework? TechCrunch Crypto Pitch-Off.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our 110+ communities are diverse yet they all need supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, social and environmental sustainability policies, and a strong impact funding environment. Our Impact Hubs place particular emphasis on reaching and enabling under-represented and under-invested entrepreneurs.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

There was a need to connect entrepreneurs coming out of a Small Business Development Center (SBDC) training program to investors and funding. Pooling money allows many small contributions to add up to significant funding for the entrepreneur. The goal is to raise at least $200,000 for the winner.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 3, 2023

The major items were: A senior level role for me Opportunities for personal development and growth Mentorship from senior leadership A home for as many of our clients and employees as possible With this framework I was able to avoid wasting time on deals that were not going to be a fit for my needs. I Sold My Business and They Shut It Down.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

That’s why Ron Miller interviewed three entrepreneurs who have each built multiple companies to uncover some essential truths about achieving product-market fit: Pouyan Salehi, CEO and co-founder, Scratchpad. To uncover some basic truths about building products, we spoke to three entrepreneurs who have each built more than one company.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And so, I joined this program, and we and a bunch of my colleagues in the program took his work and thought, “Can we put this work, this expert system inference, in a formal Bayesian probabilistic framework?” ” And the answer is you can, but the downside is it’s computationally intractable. And I remember the letter.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. I do my own reference calls. If you’re really not explicit about why, and you’re not creating some frameworks like Google did at the time to help explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. In Bijan’s post he references Bryce Roberts who recommends getting up and white-boarding.

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