AsiaTechDaily

JULY 21, 2023

The fusion of these elements cultivates an environment of growth and transformation, making it an essential strategy for startups aspiring to unlock their full potential and thrive in their respective markets. Traditional GTM playbooks often overlook the customer journey, leading to flawed strategies when customer needs change.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations. If you figure out how to 10X the success of difficult conversations, you can 10X the productivity, culture, and profitability of your company. Look at them as catalysts for growth, enhancing both your business and your personal development,” Shawn explains.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

They can identify pitfalls, recommend marketing and sales channels, and give feedback on strategy and tactics. Mentors can be a great addition to a startup, as they provide wisdom and advice to emerging businesses. Stephanie Venn-Watson , Co-founder, fatty15 Accelerate Growth and Gain Support Anyone can start a successful business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups. This has seven different funds under management, including a VC fund-of-funds, “Series A/B matching” funds and acceleration funds.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

Our conversations are always enjoyable, spanning tech, parenting and culture, so I decided to ask him Five Questions here. note, for a variety of reasons I told Mike that I thought it was a positive for him] MM: I was very excited by your advice on this topic. The investor’s advice came ringing back.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

You had to get deep into the problem set to see the opportunity and develop the right strategy—and that ultimately worked to our advantage. As a bootstrapped company, what was your strategy around hiring? Eventually, we attracted well-known investors, and that, along with our culture and growth, made hiring easier.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. 36:00 Nate: The culture in LA is by far the most entrepreneurial culture in the country.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Scharf, a Bio + Health strategy leader and active early-stage investor in the life science and digital health sectors. Thankfully I could write and was taking an economics class on the advice of my father, so I was able to get a job doing PR for life sciences companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Predictably, they’re mostly focused on the how and why: How do I get into an accelerator? TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

” Those questions and then having them written into narratives, fundamentally started to change the culture. Marco: So, at the very beginning, we introduced our digital strategy tenets, if you remember, and one of them was look outside first before you build. David: Goldman famously had built a lot of internal systems.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? The average salary for a software engineer is around €54,000.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

" Boris Silver of FundersClub offers a summary of his advice to a founder on best practices when joining an accelerator, stemming from his own experience at Y Combinator in " What do the best founders do in accelerator programs? Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There’s a ton of writing out there about getting *on* the venture curve, but not a lot about getting *off,* so Daniel’s advice below is especially important. The TPG Growth Fund invests behind companies, teams, and strategies that they believe in and where they can help accelerate their growth. I will finish here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Last week, though, the outside world got a look at how Y Combinator, one of Silicon Valley’s most famed and feared accelerators, deals with the intricacies of a scaled, yet still ultra-exclusive, community after the accelerator kicked out two founders from its internal messaging board, Bookface. Privacy first.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Traditional investment that prioritizes pedigree and culture, or the “art” of a founder, has left out an entire class of historically overlooked individuals. I don’t want to get into the due diligence conversation yet again, and investors leaning on data to dictate their investment decisions is anything but a new strategy.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They hire locally and remotely and have a close-knit culture built on authentic connections between team members. Software can be licensed to corporations to benefit employees and uses behavioral science to understand the reasoning behind financial decisions people make and to help democratize financial advice for the masses.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 12, 2018

On the flip side, a lot of investors and accelerators, including 500 Startups and Y-Combinator, are notoriously anti single founder companies. Mentors take their own context from their past success(es) and at times their lack of ‘skin in the game’ can flavour their advice. In fact, the average start-up had 1.72

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Having to deal with the culture entrenched with the decision-makers and having to dissolve the old way of thinking in order to utilize best practices of the past and integrate these practices into forward-thinking methodologies. The scarcity mindset holds us all back. Carina Boston Pinales. Ellen Bateman. Heather Metcalf. Mara Hardy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

It was good to get a little bit of an accelerant to knowing each other because everything was happening so quickly. My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. ” There’s a quick guide to Stripes culture that you can find on our job site. We had so much change happening. That’s great.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Twitter had a fundamentally flawed strategy from the beginning.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 8, 2022

My advice is that even the senior team should set its own distinctive purpose so that it can set its own performance goals to measure itself against. Once you are clear on why you are here, you can set the strategy and the goals. personality, cultural background?—?and

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) and the accelerated retirement of internal combustion engine vehicles accompanying it?—?is

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. As far as green shoots, COVID-19 has “played a role of an accelerator for innovation in many business areas and even e-government and other rigid/conservative industries,” said one. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It requires a lot of attention to make sure the pace of execution does not slow and cultural issues do not emerge as you scale. I used these meetings to get advice, but more importantly I was always giving them updates on our progress, vision, fundraising, and product releases. Give them a mission, goals, and the resources they need.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I see a clear cultural change happening in the investing universe, as more people pay attention to ESG objectives and apply an ESG filter to their investments. Bank of America has predicted $20T to flow in ESG investing strategies in the next two decades. But in the longer run, the result is a dysfunctional society. trillion. .

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I see a clear cultural change happening in the investing universe, as more people pay attention to ESG objectives and apply an ESG filter to their investments. Bank of America has predicted $20T to flow in ESG investing strategies in the next two decades. But in the longer run, the result is a dysfunctional society. trillion. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) ( Note to reader: this week’s essay is a continuation of my piece from last week, “A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? There is an incredible, thriving entrepreneurship culture that breeds fascinating companies weekly. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace. The pandemic has also accelerated digital transformation, and deal-makers have embraced digital tools to help them execute effectively. As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace. Image Credits: gremlin / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2021

“Most of the startups I give advice to about how to raise venture capital shouldn’t be raising venture capital,” an investor recently told me. Four strategies for getting attention from investors. I ran into one such startup when covering Plaid’s inaugural cohort of startups in its accelerator program. The StockX EC-1.

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