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Docugami’s new model for understanding documents cuts its teeth on NASA archives

TechCrunch

You hear so much about data these days that you might forget that a huge amount of the world runs on documents : a veritable menagerie of heterogeneous files and formats holding enormous value yet incompatible with the new era of clean, structured databases. Hugging Face raises $40 million for its natural language processing library.

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Why You Shouldn’t Decide Anything Important at Your Board Meeting

Both Sides of the Table

The same can be said of critical decisions in a board meeting or frankly any other meeting where major decisions are ratified. Why You Should Pre-Meet Board Members. It is healthy to allocate 30 minutes per board member for a call at least a week in advance of your board meeting. Don’t leave anything to chance.

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Mendel raises $18M to tease out data structure from medicine’s disparate document trove

TechCrunch

It’s also going to be using the funding to hire more talent — technical and support — for its two offices, in San Jose, California and Cairo, Egypt. The partnership with Mendel will mean that those eFaxes will now be “read” and digitized and ingested into wider platforms to tap that data in a more useful way.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. And most of us start with zero training. Bonus point) Don’t let the document get in the way.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it?

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