Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

Your goal should be to do PS as a way of accelerating future non-linear software growth. With a well architected product that has well-documented APIs and proper core product abstractions then all custom work should be build above the API stack. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. The accelerator program’s positive support system helped the startup expand its business in Asia. Practicing my speech for the IR, how to make a good document, and so on.

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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. Working with writers to create documentation. If they could raise money and go from 3 to 30 people, they could accelerate their ability to create communities. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

Every year, 200 YC companies go through our post-accelerator programs. Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO. We’ve experimented a lot: strategy docs, all-hands, documenting our 5Ss (the five most important initiatives across the company), and OKRs.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. The accelerator program ends with top startups getting additional financial incentives and the possibility of doing business in Korea. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Erik Torenberg is no longer the co-CEO of On Deck, a tech company that is trying to productize the community in a way that helps founders secure capital and advice. It resembles a classic accelerator, but perhaps one step earlier than a Y Combinator. Sources say a term sheet — a document — was put on the table.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

The other funding and support options to consider in this space are accelerators and incubators. Generally, these work in three ways: The accelerator takes a percentage of equity and, in return, ‘pays’ you via the operational support, resources, advice etc., you get $50k) AND via the operational support, resources, advice etc.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

We’ll also explore advice regarding incorporation, how to find a co-founder and when startups are too large to join an accelerator. Y Combinator’s documents hub. This advice is clear and should help you avoid some common pitfalls. Quotes lightly edited for clarity.). Where to pitch Cleo Capital. Stripe Atlas.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

I took the advice from someone in Silicon Valley who told me ‘You need a C Corp…that’s what we invest in,’” Requarth told TechCrunch. It started by documenting the process to create Latitud. “We It was an expensive mistake, and one he wants to help Latin American entrepreneurs avoid with his new venture, Latitud. “I

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2024

Here is my best advice, based upon many boards and many years. Images produced with Midjourney: Prompt for first: “Four diverse adults sitting around a conference table examining a document for each. Give one percent equity to each outside board member vesting over two to four years of service. Realistic human images.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

Also, when partnering with a more powerful unknown, it is important to legally document your rights to prevent your “partner” from crashing your business because he or she is willing to risk what you are not. Whitaker is co-founder and board member of RevTech Accelerator, a leading venture accelerator seed fund.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. A quick glance into founder dating sites or startup accelerator applicant pools you will see that in most cases the tech founders are outweighed by at least 10 to 1. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. This can be a person (advisor) or an organization, for example, an accelerator. ?? Twitter" Elon Musk arrived at Twitter carrying a sink and documenting it on Twitter, saying: "Entering Twitter HQ - let that sink in!

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

(This is why we feel confident taking his advice!) John ultimately sold those businesses or exited out of them but documented some of the things that he learned. He then wrote a book called The Automatic Customer , which is about accelerating the growth of your business once it’s able to thrive without you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

The company connects a client in need of support when conducting layoffs to a seasoned executive for anything from day-of support in sharing the news to high-level advice. Continuum recently raised a $12 million Series A round to scale a suite of fractional work tools, including a service that helps startups conduct more humane layoffs.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 21, 2023

In contrast, the Customer Journey Playbook follows a 4-step process: defining customer empathy through the Hero Customer Journey, aligning it with GTM stages in the CRM system, identifying advancers and blockers from past deals, and finally, documenting the playbook in a concise, one-page format for easy repetition.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 26, 2021

He covers what it is, walks through some of its benefits and risks, and gives advice on how to approach the process of taking on venture debt. At its best, venture debt is an effective complement to equity financing, and helps accelerate a company’s growth. In this guide, YC Managing Director Jon Levy talks about venture debt.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

00:59] Microsoft’s approach to AI [5:55] The next Industrial Revolution [10:27] Developer productivity & flow state [15:26] Reprogramming the American Dream [19:48] Advice to builders Microsoft’s approach to AI Bob: Microsoft has played such a huge role in determining the future of AI. You and I are both knowledge workers.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value. 3) Raise capital.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. Genomenon , a genomics health IT company cofounded by serial Ann Arbor software entrepreneur Steve Schwartz, helps pharma and clinical diagnostics labs accelerate research and work for solutions for patients with rare genetic diseases and cancer. FreightRoll.

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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. Soliciting under the 506(c) designation.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors)’s Accelerate program provides participants with “ the tools, resources, and exposure that are essential to launching a successful career as a director”. shares her experience as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Betatron , Hong Kong’s only venture-backed accelerator. VC Scout programs .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Problems arose after a person made public record request to the DMV to disclose the documents that the company had sent. Excell Partners, Luminate NY Accelerator, Empire State Development, MHNW Consortium, Dr. Sanjay Jha, (the former CEO of both GlobalFoundries and Motorola Mobility), as well as other investors also participated.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When we found product-market fit later that year and started bringing on lots of new customers, instead of spending engineering resources on re-architecturing our platform to scale, we were able to double down on product engineering to accelerate the growth. They should be used to enforce, validate, and document requirements.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan: On a technical level, if you look at the actual internal structure of a Figma document, it’s much more similar to an abstract syntax tree and less similar to some image. Most of the LLMs today that we’re accessing are just text-based or image generation-based. What do you want to see get built? Dylan: Figma! David: Yes!

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Also, if an adviser desires to charge such fees and expenses to a fund, the operative legal documents of the fund must include language permitting such expenses to be paid by the fund. The above analysis is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

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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. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. We had so much change happening.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I know that some of the best businesses have seen this rapid acceleration quickly: Google, Facebook, Instagram, AirBnB and the like. It was also used as a project management tool & document storage system for the largest private bank in Europe who even stored images of their bank vaults on our servers.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 2, 2012

As I was biking around the other day, I realized that they have a lot in common and so the advice I have to give about both is pretty similar: 1. Big trucks are slow to accelerate--you can always beat them out when they're moving from a standing stop. A lot of people ask me about cycling in NYC. They ask me about startups, too.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Since then, I’ve raised 5 more times for my companies and also advised various VCs and accelerators on tens of deals. Not even at the accelerator stage this is OK. In this stage, startups can choose to self-fund, raise from friends and family, get loans, join an accelerator, or raise from angel investors.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Like I’m a dreamer, and then I put the dream into a vision, and then I document it. Bad employees get fired, good employees slow down the company, great employees accelerate. How are you getting leads in and customers in, and then two, what’s your advice for other small business owners? What’s your skill?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

. “Decreased consumer confidence, inflated brand value, and a freeze in investment capital are creating a perfect storm,” says David Wright, co-founder and CEO of Pattern, an e-commerce accelerator. “Unless aggregators change how they operate, their future is bleak at best and nonexistent at worst.”

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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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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Our network comprises investors committed to the startup’s success, providing not only financial resources but also invaluable connections and advice. However, I’ve often found myself drowning in a sea of paper documents and PDF reports from fund managers. David Teten: Can you elaborate on your fee structure?

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

However, there are potential mishaps in structuring and documenting a transaction that can inadvertently ruin compliance. Great North has doubled down on the value of hands-on experience and relationships to accelerate startup growth in the Upper Midwest. Consult your tax accountant or tax attorney.

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