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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

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People like Vinod Khosla, Keith Rabois, Brian Singerman, Marc Andreessen and others have all made head-scratching private comments to me that sounded so foreign to what I thought other people were doing in VC that they caused me to challenge and ultimately change some of my own views. Draw from Frameworks. Startup Lessons'

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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Let’s set up a framework. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. If Pre-VC be mindful that in tough times capital can take longer to raise. *

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

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Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? Amid the pandemic, investors became laser-focused on sections of the pitch deck that address monetization and business viability — signs that founders need to come to the table with better-defined businesses in order to succeed.

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This freshly funded startup spun out of a student-run Stanford investment club

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Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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Europe’s tech leaders define a strategy to create tech giants

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A group of 200 startup founders, investors, associations and government members are backing a manifesto and a set of recommendations in order to create the next wave of tech giants in Europe. The biggest VC funds aren’t as big as the biggest VC funds in the U.S. The third topic revolves around Deep Tech startups.

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It’s holiday season for tech unicorns

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Thousands of startup founders will resume the trek around Silicon Valley VC offices, once the vaccines arrive. We brought together Udacity co-founder and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun , Eschaton founder and college dropout Ian Dilick , and Cowboy Ventures investor Jomayra Herrera to answer our biggest questions.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

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Singh Cassidy, founder of premium talent marketplace theBoardlist, will discuss making the leap into entrepreneurship after leaving Google, her time as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners and the framework she’s developed for taking career risks. 3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations.