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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

The most common neurosurgery fails 20% of the time and is performed with a hand-crank drill at the bedside. The advanced Hubly Drill designed for safety is here to fix that. We combine software and robotics to allows businesses to send real pen & ink handwritten notes at scale, directly from their current CRM system.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

TechCrunch

A new arm of the company, Udemy for Business, just secured a 100,000-employee contract with Cisco Systems to offer software, business and technology courses. Battery Ventures has backed Databricks since 2017, so Alex Wilhelm interviewed General Partner Dharmesh Thakker to understand why he thinks the company may be undervalued.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C.

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How To Build A Machine, Not a Hobby – Tommy Mello Playbook for a Thriving Business

Smart Hustle Magazine

How do you go from $50,000 in DEBT to a thriving $40 million business? Tommy Mello shares his story and insights that can help YOU grow your business. Smart Hustle Small Business Podcast · Tommy Mello – Building A Machine not a Hobby. Owning A Job vs a Business. Read, listen to podcasts and educate yourself.

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How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale

Y Combinator

When we launched in 2017, we were a team of five engineers. When hiring engineers, we looked for people who were amazing technically but also understood our business, were customer focused, were passionate about entrepreneurship—and understood how they needed to work. We started doing this at 10 customers.

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Luna Brothers, Inc.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

but many fail to recognise that they are fundamentally incompatible with the financial world we wish to create. As we know, the destruction of the time value of money by central bankers completely shattered the lending business model of commercial banks?—?making If BTC/USD is $10, then the contract is worth 0.1

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The tech behind Artifact, the newly launched news aggregator from Instagram’s co-founders

TechCrunch

It’s an ecosystem where publishers are failing left and right and misinformation is rampant, as the founders surely saw themselves while working at Facebook. Plus, he adds, “many of the people producing this content are going out of business.” — had an existential crisis,” Systrom tells TechCrunch.

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