Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Start with benchmarks Benchmarks are helpful to reference when you’re allocating capital across all budget items, and your board and investors can help with identifying the most relevant benchmarks for your company. The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

At the growth stages in particular, founders need to be mindful of their unit economics and margins. We often hear these founders ask: how can I capture the value created by genAI? We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 It claims to use modern frameworks that allow it to “build much quicker” than existing offerings. billion earlier this year after a $227 million raise. .

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The name RenderMan was coined in reference to the Sony Walkman for a futuristic rendering software that was so tiny it could fit inside a pocket. Creations like Zaranova are building off of the base project framework, which already has an AI agent stack, to create their own game designs off the core experience.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. What’s Peloton co-founder John Foley been up to since he left the company in September? billion valuation. billion valuation.

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