This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Whether you believe in 1% conspiracies or not, most would agree that those in power want to stay in power and a complicated legal framework helps stall social innovation and maintains the status quo. This is how software used to get developed.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 28, 2013

Sure, eight years of Jesuit high school and college gave me frameworks for learning, but it was never made obvious what I'd use them for and how they tied back into the outside world. I don't know if it was by design that I reference Descartes when I think about risk and uncertainty or by accident, but I wish I had started doing that earlier.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, Grouparoo , a new startup from three industry vets is the next company up with an open source framework designed to make it easier for developers to access and make use of customer data.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Kobie Fuller , a partner at Upfront Ventures , had a notion that there are certain characteristics that every successful enterprise software company shares. But Fuller decided to sit down and figure out what those elements were, and he has created a framework that he released today.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 28, 2022

You’ve launched your venture… now what? Read this article to learn about the VIRAL framework. Write down what the lowest-scoring, incomplete milestones are for your venture. About The Workshop. Startups don’t die from laziness. They die from working really hard… on the wrong things. When do you raise money? On what terms?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Opsera, a startup that’s building an orchestration platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Felicis Ventures. Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Velocity of venture dollars deployed increased because of ZIRP iii. Prediction for Next Wave of Startups: More startups that build for defined, but not yet venture scale, markets. Too many of the CE startups started with sub 20% take rates or venture-subsidized subscription prices. Cannibalization and Competition Among Creators.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

The conversation introduced a new framework for inclusive community development that incorporates cultural understanding, talent development and new venture creation. Take a close look at your entrepreneurial ecosystem building work and make sure you’re doing it through an equitable lens.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Firms like Baseline, Felicis, ff Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle, HomeBrew, IA Ventures, K9, Lowercase, NextView, Resolute, Rincon, Crosscut and the countless other great firms we all now know didn’t exist. I think they were all brand new or just forming.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 31, 2024

How They Do It: The team’s proprietary platform, PathOS™ , gains deep insights into patient responses using a causal AI framework that analyzes gene expression changes related to drug mechanisms and survival outcomes.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. You can watch the 20-minute video of my talk if you want here. What are the Types of Collaborative Consumption Companies?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A scalable business model refers to a framework that enables a company to increase revenue without a proportionate increase in operational costs. The Importance of Investment in Scalability Bringing in investment via venture capital or angel investors can turn a startups business model into a scalable one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling You can’t try to meet the executive team at Bird to understand the Upfront Ventures partnership dynamics because they’re too damn busy dealing with explosive growth. This is critical to build a cohesive venture capital firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

I am often asked how we make decisions on investments at Upfront Ventures. Then they need to take all the input they received, mix it up, apply a framework for how the information affects your decision and decide. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In a rapidly evolving business landscape, founder-market-geography fit serves as a multifaceted framework for assessing a startup’s potential. There’s a reason venture capital is considered “risk capital,” but there’s also ample opportunity to look beyond the typical diligence checklist to find factors that de-risk an investment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

To date, Cranium, which launches out of stealth today, has raised $7 million in venture capital from KPMG and SYN Ventures. And they can establish an AI security framework, providing their security and data science teams with a foundation for building a security program.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital. In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. They are your sparring partners. just click that link) was preparing for our annual meeting with our LPs.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Let’s use Morningstar’s 5 Factors as a framework. The framework was originally created to help public market investors determine whether or not an investment opportunity afforded a defensible moat that would contribute to a superior return-profile. It’s also about establishing a competitive moat. What makes up a moat?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The round is being co-led by Haun Ventures (the firm founded by well-connected ex-a16z partner Katie Haun), as well as strategic backers Coinbase Ventures and Shopify. And as of this week, some 150,000 smart contracts have been deployed across six blockchains. The funding being announced today also speaks to some momentum.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

EO has a framework for sustainability and how it will become net positive by 2030. When I left the hot tub industry to pursue a new manufacturing venture in electronics, global climate and waste issues inspired my thoughts around pursuing a path that would contribute to reducing carbon footprint while being a viable, sustainable business.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 25, 2019

Venture capitalists and seed funds and angel investors make or lose money on the journey from hypothetical value to real value. I try to keep this framework front and center in my brain as we meet with founders and work to find transactions that work for everyone. And when the spread between the two narrows, the money we make is less.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Make your pitch tailored to what excites venture capital investors and avoid what does not. So make your pitch tailored to what excites venture capital investors and avoid what does not. Keep the financial model details and the warehouse system logistics information to your Appendix. Try to reach hearts and minds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. 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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Dream It

JULY 20, 2020

By Alana Hill , Securetech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Subscribe to Dreamit’s Podcast on Apple , Google Podcasts , or Spotify ?. In just 5-minutes, you’ll learn and be able to avoid common obstacles founders confront while raising a bridge round.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Burgy, Georget, and Laurie published Strapi on GitHub in 2015.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Although SVB’s failure can’t be blamed on the venture ecosystem, some policymakers have joined the general public in maligning the bank’s depositors — in large part venture-backed startups. This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. This is an inflection point.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Register AHG Lab , an independent venture builder based in the Philippines, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its portfolio of ventures and programs. million in its seed round in 2021, with support from Philippine’s venture capital investor Foxmont Capital Partners.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We brought on Caya (CEO of Slidebean ) to provide a smart framework on how to find the right cofounders that can hit this mark. By Elliot Levy , Healthtech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Join Dreamit’s Rising Founder Program. This quote from our recent guest #DreamitDose perfectly encapsulates this thinking.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

React framework, today announced that it has raised a $102 million Series C funding round led by Bedrock Capital. Existing investors Accel, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital and GV also participated in this round, together with new investors 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global.

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Revolution

MARCH 23, 2022

Startups are a Sustainability Accelerant: Unlike industry incumbents with slower, more outdated frameworks, startups often build with sustainability at the forefront of their business?—?even even (and especially) as the company scales. Instead, as Schulman emphasized, agility and precision are crucial.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The crypto venture capital industry has become more selective thanks to the general market downturn and wavering trust caused by a slew of scandals and market disruptions, but investors at major firms are still writing checks in the space. We surveyed: Michael Anderson , co-founder, Framework Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Japanese startups stand to gain fresh prospects and opportunities as this forward-looking framework comes into effect. Japan’s new approach is anticipated to simplify investment processes for individual investors and venture capitalists, benefiting virtual currency startups, particularly those in the Web3 sector.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 27, 2023

The round included Prosperity7 Ventures and Softbank Ventures Asia. Recently, the startup obtained a Capital Markets Services license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, bolstering its regulatory framework.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

Antony Deroshan , Founder, Domain Coasters Implement the OKR Framework Accountability is a crucial attribute that a startup team must possess to achieve success and maintain productivity. To help achieve this, the ‘OKR’ (Objectives and Key Results) framework can serve as an effective technique.

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