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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.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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Savana raises a fresh round of capital to digitize banks’ services

TechCrunch

Beyond this, Savana offers a low-code UI framework to build internal and customer-facing apps that interface with the aforementioned APIs. The] turnkey, end-to-end platform is pre-configured with hundreds of APIs enabled.” ” Of course, Savana doesn’t stand alone in the market for banking modernization tools.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). “Boston Materials is a high-performance materials company enabling manufacturers of industrial and consumer products to break through their design trade-offs with new materials.

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

David Teten VC

2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. He said, “We estimate that annual RBI market activity has grown 10x in the last decade, from two dozen deals a year in 2010 to upwards of 200 new company fundings completed in 2018.” He said, . “[W]e

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Cross River Bank goes from tiny to mighty, with a $3B+ valuation and a crypto-first strategy

TechCrunch

“Cross River enables every company to become a fintech company, a vision we are bullish about at a16z and another reason why we’ve been committed to Cross River since the early days of the business,” said David George, general partner of the Growth Fund at Andreessen Horowitz. . Track record of growth.

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The Four Kinds of Social Capital that Matter When Building Products

Tomasz Tunguz

In April 2010, Dropbox users sent 2.8M But what theory, which frameworks, can help a startup think through the rich mechanisms for creating social sharing features that feel right? Geni and Ancestry, services that enable users to map their family tree, demonstrate the use of bonding capital best. referral emails.

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