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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. On market segmentation I often recite my “ Elephants, Deer & Rabbits ” framework. How to network better ? Each is a framework for thinking about a problem. For example: 1. Fund raising ?

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How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Startup

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Founders need to shift their thinking to an assumption of understanding—that investors who see thousands of pitches per year probably do understand what a founder is doing the vast majority of the time, and have simply decided that the risk/reward for investing in their company simply isn’t as good of a deal as others they’re currently looking at.

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The Last Coder

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Now, that skillset seems destined to be obsolete, as the network goes from physical to virtual. The iPhone meant that a ton more devs needed to learn all sorts of new code, without the benefit of having prior frameworks and shortcuts. Will we look back at the age where developers toiled over individual lines of code as archaic?

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Don’t be a Grin Fucker

Both Sides of the Table

I did 5 years of building large computer systems and computer networks for global corporations and 3+ years as a “strategy consultant.&# In many of the meetings you’d meet clients who would tell you everything you needed to know, would offer to help you and then would never follow up on the help that they had offered.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 7 VCs who are taking pitches, AI best practices, zero-based budgeting

TechCrunch

If you’re an investor who wants to be included in future columns, email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com with “How to pitch me” in the subject line. The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning.” There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come.

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The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest (Part II): Does your City have a Moat?

Revolution

But the key to success is about more than just clever branding and a good elevator pitch. Let’s use Morningstar’s 5 Factors as a framework. Morningstar outlines these five factors of a company’s moat: the network effect, intangible assets, cost advantage, switching costs, and efficient scale. What makes up a moat? may decline.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

TechCrunch

The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way. The pitch: The NFT market has exploded and the communities surrounding them have flourished, co-founder Chris Tam said. Here’s the breakdown behind the 16 startups: Company name: Lulo.