article thumbnail

Validate Your Startup Idea Like a Pro: My 4-Step Framework

Entrepreneur's Handbook

To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry. Being problem-oriented prevents the anchoring effect (putting too much merit on an initial reference point) and confirmation bias (interpreting data to reinforce your opinion or solution).

article thumbnail

SBA Announces Community Navigator Model and Funding Opportunity

Source Link

In guiding organizations through the process of deploying Community Navigators (we often refer to them as Network Navigators), it’s been our experience this model can be successful in communities of all sizes—whether that’s impacting small towns like Klamath Falls or scaling to statewide initiatives in Kansas , Missouri , Wisconsin and Iowa.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Latest Update on the SBA Community Navigator Funding Opportunity

Source Link

This federal shift in investment and policy represents a tremendous opportunity for economic developers, community champions and grassroots ecosystem organizers who want to transform their local economies as their community recovers from the devastating economic impact of COVID-19. What is the SBA Community Navigator Model?

article thumbnail

How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

But the alien metaphor serves as a neat acronym for the five dimensions of our ALIEN thinking framework: A for Attention. Current innovation frameworks–think lean startup or design sprint–emphasize speed and action over reflection and strategic breaks. L for Levitation (meaning reflection). I for Imagination.

article thumbnail

Japan’s EdgeCortix Closes $20 Million Funding Round, Collaborates with Renesas Electronics

AsiaTechDaily

Register EdgeCortix , a Japan-based fabless semiconductor development and design company specializing in edge artificial intelligence (AI), announced the successful conclusion of its $20 million funding round. The company plans to channel these resources into the development and launch of the next generation of SAKURA hardware products.

article thumbnail

Investing in Valar Labs

Andreessen Horowitz

Our team at a16z bio + health has outlined several frameworks for thinking about AI applications in healthcare ( here , here , here ), and one I reference frequently is a simple 2×2 diagram of tasks that are easy vs hard for humans, and easy vs hard for AI. They have spoken to biopharma companies developing new therapies.

article thumbnail

How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.