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“You have to assume every company will have access to the same LLMs and voices. The challenge, then, is to build a company that thrives despite this reality” Five Questions with RegalAI’s Alex Levin on Building In a Fast Moving Industry and More

Hunter Walk

When I came across Marc Andreessens article, “ Why Software is Eating the World in 2011, it felt like a vindication of the direction I had chosen, but I was already down that path. For example, integrating AI into customer data systems, and enabling actions (like processing payments, updating CRMs, or sending SMS messages).

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Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness

A Smart Bear: Longform

A Smart Bear » Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness All Articles Topics Author Moon Sun All Articles Topics Author Subscribe By Jason Cohen on March 28, 2011 Reading time: 5 min Simple eReader (Kindle) Rich eReader (Apple) Printable PDF Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness by Jason Cohen on March 28, 2011 Want to write better?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 This has spawned growth in related VC-backed businesses like Burstly, TapJoy and Flurry who help enable real-time transactions in mobile apps.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

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(If you want to watch my interview from 7 years ago it’s here or you can read the summary notes I wrote up ) Derek built Startup Grind from 2011 with 20 people in one room for a conference into a global phenomenon with 600 chapters all over the world and more than 2 million members.

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Forsite Capital Closes Sixth Fund, focusing on Healthcare and Life Science Startups

American Entrepreneurship

With the recent closing of its Sixth fund of $900 million, the firm stands on a record of 47 IPOs, 28 mergers and acquisitions, and 58 FDA drug approvals since its founding in 2011. With over $3.5 billion now under management, Foresite’s team adheres to a data and science-driven investment strategy.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

America’s immigrants opened more than a quarter of all new businesses in 2011; per capita, they’re more than twice as likely to do so as people who were born here. The Startup Visa movement is aimed at a pain point that is near and dear to my heart.