Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup In this article, we explore nineteen different strategies for managing risk in startups, shared by founders, CEOs, and other industry professionals. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

strategy

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Rocket often followed the Blitzscaling model popularized by Reid Hoffman — earning them an appearance in his book of the same name. Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy. For background, Rocket Internet has helped launch some very successful businesses internationally, including HelloFresh ($12.9

incubation

StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Having a sustainable and systematic customer acquisition strategy is an essential component of success for any organization, especially as a startup. If you have a product or service to sell, you need a customer acquisition strategy. A good strategy will help you grow in a targeted and cost-effective way to attract the right customers.

creativity

Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michèle Hecken : I had sold my business and was writing a book, which made me curious about public speaking. I wanted GSA to give me a framework for a signature talk and help me understand what topic and how best to present on it. I’d been speaker-coaching for nearly 20 years, but I loved being behind the scenes more than on the stage.

peer-to-peer

Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. Regardless of the outcome, be prepared with a strategy. The focus is mostly around marketing, because this is where so many startups fail.

startup

TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The process of debating and agreeing the details of this startup ecosystem support framework is expected to take between six and nine months. Although that component of the España Nación Emprendedora strategy is, inevitably, going to be a slower burn, hence the decade-long lens.

startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

How do you think those qualities contribute to your success in working with startups and forming strategies? Marketing strategies that help find product-market fit are very different from acquiring your first 100 customers, which is very different from scaling your customer acquisition or lead generation. What value do they add?

founder

David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Maria Palmer of RRE summarizes : “You can’t pick a platform strategy that’s unique, but you can pick a platform strategy that your firm can uniquely execute. ” . I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. What to consider before building your VC platform strategy. In-house functional specialists.

venture capital

AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Materials Science as a Guiding Force Alex’s academic background in materials science and engineering has played an instrumental role in shaping his investment strategy, particularly in deep tech sectors. He notes, “You absolutely need to be right about the market from the get-go if you want to survive.”

creativity

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you’re starting, you’ll need a brand, strategy and the marketing infrastructure to reach early customers. Our long-term relationships start with a growth strategy workshop, where we identify a north star metric so that everyone is pulling in the same direction from day one. How do you collaborate with startups?

startup

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Outschool itself has surged over 2,000% in new bookings, and recently turned its first profit. Varsity Tutors’ strategy is one version of pod-based learning, which gained traction a few months ago as an alternative to traditional schooling.

education

TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

“As the venture landscape becomes more a meritocratic environment where resumes and institutional affiliations matter less, these strategies can make the difference between a successful fundraise and a fruitless meeting,” says Agya Ventures co-founder Kunal Lunawat. ” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

startup

Ian Hathaway

JULY 29, 2020

This article originally published on the Center for American Entrepreneurship Ideas Blog My new book with CAE Advisory Board member Brad Feld published yesterday. Even the most well-designed policy needs an implementation strategy. This typically means financial investment, and specifically, venture or angel capital.

communities

David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Maria Palmer of RRE summarizes : “You can’t pick a platform strategy that’s unique, but you can pick a platform strategy that your firm can uniquely execute. ” . I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. What to consider before building your VC platform strategy. In-house functional specialists.

venture capital

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. 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. Always a pleasure.

development

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

From personal decisions to business strategy, we need better tools to abstract the complexity of today’s modern society. Outschool itself has surged over 2,000% in new bookings, and recently turned its first profit. What data am I lacking to make a fully-formed decision? We also need better thinking around how to network knowledge.

education

Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ll provide a simple framework to calculate the expected value of the information gained from the experiment. We’ll explain how to adapt the framework to your own use cases, and take a peek under the hood for those that want to dive deeper. Much of this paralysis is due to a lack of framework for determining the value of a test.

frameworks

Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager. Maybe we can start with that backstory on how that chapter inside of Elad’s book came together. Her team loved working for her. Claire, welcome to Office Hours.

leadership

Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

I was fortunate enough to have Amy Smith, the Chief Strategy & Impact Officer, share her perspective on this topic: “The start of the pandemic was a challenging time that provided many with the opportunity to pause, reflect and gain perspective, and this was no different for TOMS. That’s my modus operandi. Find the open space.

communities

Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

How An Algorithm Transformed The Music Industry And Created The Mobile & Social Web As the music industry recently announced its first annual revenue growth after 15 years of uninterrupted contraction, I thought it was a good time to share some of the things I learnt from reading Stephen Witt’s book How Music Got Free.

incumbents

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. Talks About New Trustless Asset Portfolio Prism. " In Other News.

peer-to-peer

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. He brings knowledgable experts from varying points of view but never books anybody that engages in yelling matches.

frameworks

Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Most every marketer is familiar with A/B testing, but few have a consistent framework for prioritizing what to test. He is currently writing a book on Marketing Memetics. However the ability to instantly produce any creative you can imagine — for next to zero cost — only makes creative testing strategy even more important.

creativity

FundersClub

JUNE 22, 2017

" Suiteness announces a partnership with Viceroy Hotel Group to integrate some of their most exclusive and lavish suites from hotels in cities such as Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco into Suiteness’ online booking platform in " Suiteness Partners With Viceroy Hotel Group to Offer Exclusive Suites Online.

VC

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. If you’re between the ages of 15 and 35, it’s really cool and you might be able to get a job doing it.

energy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Read on to learn why Joachimsthaler believes this framework encourages innovation more than any other business model. In your book, The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society , you write that the future is about creating value for everyone.

hospitality

Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Here, he shares his thoughts on capacity building as a leadership strategy. . I have gone all-in on capacity building as a leadership strategy. A big part of this is showing my team my commitment to improving, inspiring them to grow and giving them both the framework and the support to improve.

investing

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2023

Or, as the late scholar, author and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described it in his classic book ‘Flow’, these are the times we find our most productive flow; our path toward personal happiness. We learned how the RAWI framework can be a simple but powerful method of taking control of the situation. R: are we Ready?

frameworks

Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Favorite business book, blog, podcast? The strategy to minimize loss is not the strategy to win. Execute on the strategy to win. Although we spend lots of time talking about numbers, metrics and frameworks, there’s an artistic component to entrepreneurship that’s really important. Eliminate distractions.

VC

TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Leading the round is Framework Venture Partners, with participation from Gresham House Ventures, Sage and existing investors. Founded in 2017 by Tim Fouracre, who previously founded cloud accounting software Clear Books, Countingup now boasts over 34,000 business customers. Countingup , the U.K. million in Series A investment.

frameworks

Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2018

She described the purpose, strategy and tactics of a marketing department remarkably succinctly. Search, social, speaking events, books, webinars, analysts, field marketing and others. In my experience, this marketing framework is unique in its simplicity and combination of strategy and tactics. Sales cycles will drag.

frameworks

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

What it does: Decentralized order book for loans. The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way. The strategy is staying on top of all the trends so other companies don’t have to,” Ji said. Stage: Seed round. games to web3.

accelerator

TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

How many people are instantly booking those listings? ” And the other issue is that metrics have become an increasingly important — maybe the most important — lever for decision making in the world of product design and wider business strategy for a tech (and maybe by default, any) company.

mix-use

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

But as I started, there was no playbook, no blog posts, and only a few books on entrepreneurship. I also set personal learning goals, such as reading at least four business books each quarter. By running experiments at scale, entrepreneurs can quickly identify what works and what doesn’t and adjust their strategy accordingly. “If

entrepreneurs

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

. “The reality is, they end up buying because they come to understand the value of the reinforcement learning driven approach to portfolio management, which provides invaluable insights for managing portfolio risk, balancing and growing their book of business.” Image Credits: Federato.

frameworks

TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Specifically, I hoped to join a company with a very strong engineering and product management culture that needed a CEO with strategy, vision, business development, fundraising and team-building expertise. No choice we make will be perfect, and all the frameworks in the world won’t eliminate risk entirely. All rights reserved.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2017

But over time, in order to achieve larger and larger bookings, the company must diversify. Breadth: How broad is the demand generation strategy? The important part of this framework is to create a shared lexicon about how to evaluate demand generation portfolios, and what the best asset allocation might be for the business.

frameworks