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VC Corner: Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate

Startup Grind

Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. What is one piece of advice you’d give every founder? Although we spend lots of time talking about numbers, metrics and frameworks, there’s an artistic component to entrepreneurship that’s really important. I love teaching.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges

TechCrunch

Please note that these are for entertainment purposes only, as “we’re not offering investing advice or recommending anyone join or back a startup.” ” Thanks very much for reading. Have a great weekend! Now, the company has 50 employees, plans to open a cat café and is eyeing an expansion into retail.

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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. I used these meetings to get advice, but more importantly I was always giving them updates on our progress, vision, fundraising, and product releases. Train your team to use experimentation frameworks. We had a few amazing engineers in mind we wanted to hire early on.

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Empowering Web3 Communities and Revolutionizing Fan Engagement: Meet Manuela Seve, CEO of Alphaa.io

Jason Malki

Then in 2017, my first trip to Burning man completely changed my outlook on humanity as a whole. framework will be responsible for adding millions of users to this new back-end through our communities across industries. That being said, seek out those you admire and ask for advice…you never know where the conversation will lead.

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Xayn is privacy-safe, personalized mobile web search powered by on-device AIs

TechCrunch

The team behind the app, which is comprised of 30% PhDs, has been working on the core privacy vs convenience problem for some six years (though the company was only founded in 2017); initially as an academic research project — going on to offer an open source framework for masked federated learning, called XayNet.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Monitoring and reporting solutions include BaseVenture , Burgiss , Davigold , Chronograph , DocDep , eFront FrontInvest , Framework , Investors Economic Assurance’s CapAssure , Q-Biz Solutions , Qualtrics , Rundit , SS&C GlobeOp , and Vantage Software. As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business. 3) Raise capital. VisibleVC helps companies to provide data-driven updates.