TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. A technology executive and entrepreneur, board member and investor, she has 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon and Yodlee.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. Venture firms in those countries are also raising funds; for example, this month, Colombia-based Marathon Ventures announced its first fund of $26 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Nigel Morris is the co-founder and managing partner of QED Investors. The uncertain economic landscape of 2022 has left businesses and their founders between a rock and a hard place. Many CEOs can’t afford to simply exist within the status quo frameworks they enjoyed as part of a rosy 2021. More posts by this contributor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

Monica was glad to get back to her Jackson-Square office dry, clutching her daily cappuccino from the coffee truck around the corner, especially as she’d left her umbrella at last night’s networking event which she’d attended with her co-founder, Joe. Let’s see what the board says!” I was considering about 15% below our competitors.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

This can be particularly helpful for founders who do not come from a wealthy background, who may not be able to afford going without income for an 18 month fundraising period. A good framework is to separate their roles as pure money investor and co-manager. Credibility/signaling (proportionate to the stake investor’s credibility).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

V7 — named in reference to AI being the “seventh” area for processing images after the six areas in the human brain that form its visual cortex (V1 through V6) — and the others are banking on the fact that the training model is inefficient and can be improved. Patel is joining V7’s board with this round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Really exciting new tech is emerging — new tools that have immediately sparked artists, founders…all kinds of people to do new things. ” Surman was referring to the rash of AI models in recent months that, while impressive in their capabilities, have worrisome real-world implications. While he pledges that Mozilla.ai

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

When you start with your prompt zero, you'll notice that Tempo Labs creates something like a Figma board: all the screens of your app with arrows displaying the navigation flows that the users will follow to interact with it. As the founder says, it depends on how much coffee he drinks.)

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

This can be particularly helpful for founders who do not come from a wealthy background, who may not be able to afford going without income for an 18 month fundraising period. A good framework is to separate their roles as pure money investor and co-manager. Credibility/signaling (proportionate to the stake investor’s credibility).

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. ” And the amount of actual founders who’ve gotten in touch with me either over Twitter or personally or who know who I am because of that, I’ve lost count.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

Find one that’s on the earlier-stage size or one that raised a long time ago and never scaled and get to know the founder & CEO. Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. These can be called: Operating Partners, Venture Partners, Board Partners or similar.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Rahul Sasi, co-founder of cybersecurity firm CloudSEK, who worked with the RBI’s group for identifying questionable loan apps, said that flagging such apps was difficult even for Google. The DLAI has over 80 members on its board, including some of the widely used digital lending platforms.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In board meetings, we scrutinize the efficiency of sales and marketing (S&M) spend, costs of goods sold (COGS), and general and administrative costs (G&A). The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. The reality is the best angels, the best seed funds and the best A-round investors have choices about whom they will refer deals to and are very selective.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Build trust with founders and then offer your own data-backed take on why a founder’s decision might not be the best decision they could make. I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. Many founders I’ve worked with are like, “well, that’s why you’re here.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 8, 2025

” “What about requiring references?” As I told our entrepreneurs: “Your startup won’t die because you didn’t work enough – founders always work so hard! Startups die because their founders worked really hard… on the wrong things.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

“Stable Diffusion will allow both researchers and soon the public to run this under a range of conditions, democratizing image generation,” Stability AI CEO and founder Emad Mostaque wrote in a blog post. That will make Stability AI the first to release an image generation model nearly as high-fidelity as DALL-E 2.

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