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Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19

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The post Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19 appeared first on 500 Startups. From taking all aspects of our accelerators digital (including our Demo Day) to rethinking the opportunities of the future, we’ve taken this moment to analyze what innovations can come from this time and new opportunities that arise from our changing environment.

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How Much Money Should You Raise From Venture Investors?

Dream It

This framework helps founders position their fundraising targets and avoid red flags with investors. Here are some common red flags for venture investors: Red Flag #1 : Ask isn’t tied to specific fundable milestones. So the question remains: what is the appropriate amount of funding founders should request?

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The Business of Who Makes is Changing

This is going to be BIG.

It''s also the same bet that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures made with Makr --that enabling more people to be more creative could be revolutionary. Tools like AWS, open source and web frameworks made the barriers to producing technology applications lower. Venture Capital & Technology' That unleashed an explosion in innovation.

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My Role as a VC: What I am and what I am not.

This is going to be BIG.

That does not mean telling them how to run the company, but to help them create a management discipline--a framework for thinking about problems and solutions. Venture Capital & Technology' I am not trying to build a big firm, employ a lot of people, or manage the most money possible.

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Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway

TechCrunch

And now that many startups are running through the venture funding they raised in the go-go-go times of pre-2021, many founders are facing the difficult task of reducing expenses to extend their runway. The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning.

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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

This is going to be BIG.

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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Do you really know how to learn?

This is going to be BIG.

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.