Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

… The post Leader Election from Randomness Beacons and Other Strategies appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I do occasionally log into LinkedIn and respond to random requests. random emails are acceptable. I think that’s ok but then you can’t be offended when you don’t get random responses. Yes, my family takes priority over my emails, Adam. I’ve met hundreds of people by randomly responding to requests. For whatever reason?—?random

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In other words, I literally do not have the time to just shoot the s**t with any random professional who winds up in my inbox with some vague idea of where our professional interests might align. That is not to say that I don’t love meeting new people or that I don’t want to meet anyone else.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2020

I woke up to this tweet this morning: @fredwilson someone has hijacked your cap table link in this post – it now goes out to some random company rather than your template [link] — John Henderson (@johnhenderson) April 21, 2020.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

I miss the randomness of in-person people for sure. Now, I’m stuck getting my exposure to people online. Clubhouse is basically the opposite of what I’m looking for. It’s tech people talking about tech things at best, and VCs talking about Clubhouse at its worst. What about you? Share this post and let’s all discuss.

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Derek Sivers

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You often need to generate random strings, like for login cookies and unique entry codes. So make your life simpler by generating the random strings directly in the database. Give it a number: the length of the random string you want. Give it a number: the length of the random string you want. eP3X7yqe download code.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

When you''re younger, so much of your physical ability derives from the randomness of who sprouts up earlier, who was born just before the cutoff and happens to be almost a year older than everyone, etc. Random Stuff Venture Capital & Technology' It doesn''t just happen. It''s a habitual practice. I like it better that way.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 13, 2020

One of my favorite jokes goes something like this: Whenever a new position opens up, and I have to sort through a stack of resumes, the first thing I do is take half of them at random and throw them away. If you seemed to give random scores or score everyone the same. I don’t want unlucky people working in this department.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 20, 2020

Walton has had great success using something he calls “spotlight”, where he picks two random people what they have done over the last few weeks that they are proud of. Welcome new staff, celebrate promotions and achievements. Share appreciation and learnings.

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

A bunch of random thoughts and news. The line Run by TechStars (a competitor to YC) who have a lot of experience in building companies this could also be useful to entrepreneurs starting out. They have quite a bit of experince investing and so have seen it all. Morning Brew A classic all round newsletter, which is quite famous.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There is no random “lightbulb” or “aha” moment. We summarize these pearls of wisdom in our new book, Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know — Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders. The book is full of insights and advice for every stage of your entrepreneurial journey.

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MARCH 2, 2015

I asked another VC why they do this and they answered, "So we don''t have to go through all the random crap.". If you''re an investor that has a magical dealflow stream that isn''t mostly random crap, please tell me how you do this.

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APRIL 11, 2022

You can follow up with an e-mail subject like, “Kale, Pizza Hut and my Pitch” and then I’m going to know exactly who you are and will be curious to hear more and hopefully learn more random facts. 4) Don’t push for me to say yes or no right then—because I see 2000 things in a year and do 8-10 of them.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Last week, Harvard Business School released its analysis of LLMs on 758 consultants’ performance when using AI. Three key insights emerged. In the first experiment (inside AI’s capability frontier), consultants randomly assigned access to GPT-4 AI completed 12.2% more tasks on average & 25.1% Quality improved by 40%.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Unlike YouTube sleep channels or random sleep sounds, it has undergone clinical trials, significantly increasing deep sleep ratios. Miracle Night stands out due to its scientific backing and personalization.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

He explains how technology can turn random snippets into inspiration: "I keep all these quotes in a database using a program called DEVONthink, where I also store my own writing: chapters, essays, blog posts, notes. Findings is a Betaworks company and Steven Johnson, author of " Where Good Ideas Come From " is a part of it, too.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

As a special thank you, all attendees of this episode of Extra Crunch Live will be entered into a random drawing for a chance to win one of three free tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Following the event, we’ll randomly select three winners and send details on how to redeem their passes.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 20, 2019

Take any random group of entrepreneurs, for example, and do a quick unscientific survey by asking them to raise their hands if they grew up in an environment where at least one parent had disappeared or left or was never present. With help, patience, courage, and guidance, we explore the wreck and retrieve the treasure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

I had so many casual meet-ups with random people that I wanted to spend quality time with, like Naval Ravikant and Farb Nivi. One of the biggest pleasures for me was just meeting all of the random people at food trucks at 2am like Joshua Cook from Gunderson Dettmer where we chatted over chicken-fried waffles served with syrup and hot sauce.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

As a special thank you, all attendees of this episode of Extra Crunch Live will be entered into a random drawing for a chance to win one of three free tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Following the event, we’ll randomly select three winners and send details on how to redeem their passes.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

They don’t wind up subscribing to anything I put out there and I never hear from them when I have a random ask for a kayaking volunteer or a recommendation on a space to host events in NYC. Too many times, I’ve engaged with someone, given them some good advice, and the relationship just ends there.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

The latter gave me too much freedom to create random (and inaccurate) responses, while the former meant that the correct answer was right in front of me. Experiment with the temperature The temperature also plays a part in terms of GPT-3's hallucinations, as it controls the randomness of its results.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2023

For instance, a study published in the National Bureau of Economic Review reported on a randomized control trial comparing the performance of software engineers assigned to a hybrid schedule vs. an office-centric schedule. Engineers who worked in a hybrid model wrote 8 percent more code over a six-month period.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

To this day, every so often, Lennert wakes up to a random message in his inbox from strangers thanking him for both his work and his voice for inclusivity. The media world agreed: the documentary is now live on Crave in Canada, and continues to be featured by media outlets and platforms across the globe.

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MAY 31, 2022

Interestingly, my HDL, while improving, is still stubbornly low, thanks to a totally random Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency that I only knew about from 23andMe. Within 60 days, I dropped my LDL from 144 to 58!! I’ve also been able to raise my HDL by 70%—all without any drastic changes to my diet.

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JULY 14, 2019

I haven’t spoken to that person in a while—it might be too random now.” “I feel like if you were interested, you would have said something already.” “I I wasn’t sure if it was ok to ask.” “I Do any of these lines sound familiar? Too often, I meet founders that need something, and feel awkward about asking for it for a variety of reasons.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The post [Medisafe in PharmiWeb] Novel randomized control trial reveals impact of Medisafe on medication self-efficacy and medication adherence to improve health outcomes in medically underserved populations appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Random acts of kindness. Of every 100 refugees, 60 were kids, 35 were women, and only 5 were men. We saw a lot of mothers with two or three kids and sometimes a grandmother. The men stayed to fight for their country, and we had to take care of their families now.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 4, 2022

Split the segment equally at random to ensure the results aren’t skewed one way or the other. The easiest way to achieve random group selection is to use an email service provider (ESP) that has built-in A/B testing. If the groups are too small or not varied enough, the test will be prone to just reflect the results of randomness.

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

Some are just random rich people who think they can get away with b t because they have money—and they haven’t been proven wrong yet, and maybe never will. Whatever it was, they just don’t want to work with you and the emotional drama of actually telling you to your face about it just isn’t worth it. You pitched a jerk.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Groups described as ‘small’ were often bursting at the seams, and experiences often felt flimsy and random. In a statement, Ingeborn said: “When I looked at other online offerings created for this demographic, I didn’t feel that they particularly encouraged meaningful connections.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Some organizers don’t actually know—and they just decided to invite any random VC, software developer, or founder—hence their really boring, generic questions. Knowing this helps direct your answers towards some kind of central theme and asking those who brought you in “Why me?” also forces them to think about the same.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2023

Every so often, the robot introduces some randomness in choosing the next word, to pepper its responses with variety. The robot has ingested more than 500 GB of sentences & calculated the odds that the word after this one is…and then injects it into the sentence.

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

Penguin Random House. Take a page out of the Penguin Random House playbook and send more personalized newsletters. Penguin Random House’s preference center. In this case, Penguin Random House sent the subscriber a link to a preference center to select the most appealing book genres. Why it works.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Shaun Maguire: I think most founders don’t appreciate how random fundraising is. There is a lot of randomness. Ninety percent of the time it’s randomness and it’s not you. . You’ve sat on both the founder side and investor side, what is one thing you wish you could have told your founder self ?

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

A series of random, rapid connections and 3-minute conversations with other attendees based on specific topics. TechCrunch Mobility Desk Analysis: Get the lowdown on what went down at TC Mobility on days one and two. Hear TC editors offer fresh analysis and see clips from the in-person interviews and presentations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 16, 2021

In my case, the list wasn’t something I could just put together overnight because I had belongings that were unaccounted for–an extra pair of jeans at my parents’ home “ just in case” and a random pair of dress shoes my friend borrowed. 90-90 Test .

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