StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

However, clear legal frameworks and sound intellectual property (IP) strategies can safeguard your innovations and support your overall growth. Moreover, constant internal strife can lead to burnout, which further accelerates turnover. A mentor’s advice can save you from reinventing the wheel or making costly mistakes.

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A Smart Bear

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Fast decisions leads to rapid action, which accelerates the loop of production and feedback, which is how you outpace and out-learn a competitor, even one that already has a lead. Rather, this is a framework for thinking through what needs to be done. We all know that startups should make decisions quickly.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Venrock Vice President Todd Graham has some frank advice for founders at venture-backed startups: “It would be wise to generate a return at some point.” As its startup market accelerates, Brazil could be in for an IPO bonanza. As its startup market accelerates, Brazil could be in for an IPO bonanza.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

1 thing that has consistently helped me get better at setting—and achieving—goals is using the right framework.” My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations. And while I achieved many of them, I’ve endured plenty of failures, too,” Eric says. Goal-setting tends to improve with time and practice.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

As a result, he says the accelerator model must evolve, as “nearly every early-stage VC will have a ‘platform’ component to support early-stage founders.” I do not pretend to have a silver bullet,” he says, “but I do have a tried-and-true framework you can use to help you achieve your first million.”

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The most common advice given to aspiring entrepreneurs is to start a business that ignites your passion. Here is a framework that can help you delve deeper into your quest to choose the right startup business: Self-Evaluation : What interests, hobbies, and passions do you have?

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

Looking to accelerate inclusiveness in Europe’s entrepreneurial and incubation environment , Impact Hub teamed up with partners to enhance Business Support Organisations’ skills, methods and approaches towards different under-represented groups.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 23, 2022

I never liked being a consultant; I always thought I wanted to create and not “just” give advice or solve problems for others. Looking back at my time as founder and CEO, it would have helped me so much to have someone by my side giving me not only advice but something I would call active guidance. But then something happened.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We have a group chat with our partners where we can get quick advice, and YC’s office hours framework makes it easy to find time to dive deep when we need it. And, when things are going well, you have a great network of people to accelerate that forward momentum. Would you encourage other recent grads to start a startup?

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 21, 2023

Understanding this journey allows startups to foster Customer Empathy and build a shared framework to enhance their Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy. This collaborative effort streamlines the process and fosters a customer-centric culture, accelerating the journey toward unlocking growth and achieving success.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What often makes the framework challenging for companies seeking to fundraise is that each of the exemptions has its unique combination of conditions. Although the exemptions remain complex, the changes provide incremental improvement to the existing framework. Almost all of the new rules should become effective early next year.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Because of Startup School’s (SUS) growing popularity and our firm belief that the program increases a founder’s chance of success, we are accelerating our schedule and not waiting a full year for the next iteration. If that framework will help you make more progress than you would otherwise (and we hope it does), please sign up again.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Some only talked to a single investor, while others used their first pre-emptive term sheet to run an accelerated process with a few investors that were already in the loop. However, founders that used their pre-emptive TS to run an accelerated process were able to minimize the “cost” of the pre-emptive offer.

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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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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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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. Train your team to use experimentation frameworks.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

So, if you get a bunch of engineers in a room for example, if they need to do a web project, you can count the seconds before the discussion on frameworks come up. And so all that, I think, this shift towards more of a real-time business is something that AI definitely will accelerate. Because engineers they tend to start from the how.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Although SSBs are years away from mass production, “we are on the cusp of some pretty incredible discoveries using major improvements in computational science and machine learning algorithms to accelerate that process,” says SSB startup founder Amy Prieto. His advice for companies considering an IPO? “Go public now.”

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

The advice covers everything: performance optimization, user experience, accessibility, security, and even code quality, among too many others to mention. But after seeing Tomas Halgas ' framework for thinking about vibe coding, these tools can actually take off to become an entirely new category of visual development.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Investing in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Decentralized finance, commonly known as DeFi, is transforming the landscape of financial transactions by harnessing the potential of smart contracts within a peer-to-peer framework. While still in its formative stages, accelerating innovation points to a landscape of expanding opportunities.

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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. If you’re really not explicit about why, and you’re not creating some frameworks like Google did at the time to help explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. If you have raised a limited amount of money from angels, accelerators or seed funds be very careful about having a high burn rate. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it. As important as this decision is, founders often don’t have a good framework for making it. Here is the framework I recommend. Here is some advice for negotiating these agreements.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

His initial advice? ” In a related article, Gregg Adkin, VP and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, shared the framework he’s developed for helping founders set up their board. The acceleration of B2B AI innovation has begun. The acceleration of B2B AI innovation has begun. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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David Teten VC

MAY 26, 2021

A Framework for Venture Capital Fund Law. I’m not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. This essay is a summary of a class I taught for the Oper8r VC fund accelerator. Getting the Count Right: Understanding the Limits of Investment Company Act & Optimizing Your Fund Size. Thanks to Prabhat Gusain for research help.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

Brian Armstrong of Coinbase (FC Portfolio) outlines their long-term strategy for accelerating the world’s shift to an open financial system in " What is Coinbase’s strategy? " Founder and Operator Thoughts.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Providing practical frameworks such as circular economy principles, impact measurement methodologies, and sustainable supply chain management. This has evolved to a lively Community of Practice of Impact Hub teams from around the world, offering circular economy programs and connections, currently involving over 50 people at 30 Impact Hubs.

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