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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

For example, we refer to statistics and news stories that discuss the enormous funding gap for SMEs globally, and how our platforms precisely address this issue. When you relate your metrics to broader, industry-level trends, you enable investors to gain a sense of the larger picture and the potential for market disruption and growth.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. We spoke about the disruption of VC through crowd funding. If you have some time I highly recommend watching it. Freemium. .”

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

TechCrunch

This is Hopper’s second raise in a year that has been marked by turmoil for the travel industry, owing to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. That characterization mostly comes from Hopper’s ability to offer customers financial flexibility around their travel bookings. Now, with the U.S.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

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In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. somebody he knew from afar?—?to to do the interview.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. So if this shift happens it really will lead to a disruption in billions of dollars of online spend.

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Contact, a platform for creatives backed by Maisie Williams, raises $1.9M seed led by Founders Fund

TechCrunch

And yet, managing your professional life as a model, actor, writer or designer remains a mish-mash of emails, manual booking processes and dreaded PDFs. Late last year the Contact platform launched, initially offering models a way to take bookings and manage some aspects of their work. Image Credits: Contact.

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Putting Data in a Corner: LLMs and Financial Services Data

Andreessen Horowitz

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.