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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Reading it felt like read a university book for an economics class and no wonder since he’s a professor at Harvard Business School.

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Eight accounting tips every Kiwi startup needs to know

NZ Entrepreneur

A separate business bank account draws a clear distinction between your personal and business finances. A budget, on the other hand, provides a financial framework for the startup’s operations. Don’t be shy about seeking out these opportunities.

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Everything I didn’t learn about startups as a VC (…or why VCs don’t make good entrepreneurs)

This is going to be BIG.

The financing plans are largely in their court, whereas, as an entrepreneur, you deal with what you have and you always have the uncertainty of a future financing affecting your plans. 3) VCs plan out the future of a company and what it needs —and are basically willing to support it if you continue to execute.

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Singapore-based open finance startup Finantier gets backing from Y Combinator

TechCrunch

Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent. Open finance grew out of open banking, the same framework that Plaid and Tink are built on.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

But how can biotech teams effectively communicate to investors and partners how they will, with each round of financing, incrementally reduce the risks of discovering and developing successful new drugs? How much of the total financing is allocated towards the lead program? Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up?

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management.

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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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They could be seizing upon an opportunity to make their business ownership dream a reality, exploring an idea that creates positive social change, or they may be acting out of necessity because of a change in circumstances such as the loss of a job.