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Startup Recruiting Hacks

This is going to be BIG.

One of the cool things about being a fund that works with so many early stage companies is that bringing the whole portfolio together in one place results in a lot of collaborative learning opportunities. This can cause you to miss opportunities on both sides. One of the topics that was discussed in a breakout session was recruiting.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity? And investments in open source products have almost tripled from 58 deals in 2015 to 144 deals in 2021. Take PostCSS, a widely popular CSS framework built by Andrey Sitnik.

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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

TechCrunch

Two firms stuck out in recent days, including Urban Innovation Fund , which closed with commitments of $101 million for its Fund III and $20 million Opportunity Fund, and VMG Catalyst ‘s $400 million Fund II. That’s how the $20 million Opportunity Fund, Urban Innovation Fund’s first in this category, came about.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. has created a software-centric, purpose-built … platform that exclusively targets this large market opportunity. “I founded Sima.ai “Sima.ai

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A Personal Update

Andreessen Horowitz

And I am grateful for the entire partnership, especially Marc and Ben, for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime when they promoted me to be General Partner , ending the firm’s long standing rule of 9 years to only hire general partners who had been CEO’s or founders. Kobold Metals – My first deal as a general partner.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. Kontico is based in the Czech Republic.).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 5 pitch deck slides to fix, initial viable product, MLOps acceleration

TechCrunch

Using examples from Airbnb, Uber and others, he shares several strategies for avoiding the most common pitfalls, along with the pitch deck framework Slidebean uses with most of its clients. Use case/audience. Possible outcomes. How can we call it anything but a win?”. Investors bet that Sweetgreen will make sweet amounts of green.