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JANUARY 28, 2013

Sure, eight years of Jesuit high school and college gave me frameworks for learning, but it was never made obvious what I'd use them for and how they tied back into the outside world. For anyone who wants to be a VC, those are the skills I would work on. Pattern matching for early warning signs of trouble.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 If you have strong VC support now and a lot of cash in the bank you may be willing to accept a higher burn rate (say $300k or $400k per month) than a company with angel money and less cash in the bank. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. Rocket often followed the Blitzscaling model popularized by Reid Hoffman — earning them an appearance in his book of the same name.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Bucking the VC trend : Security compliance and automation will never go out of style, and Drata is proving that this sector is still attractive to investors. The company, which helps customers adhere to frameworks, like SOC 2 and GDPR, secured $200 million at a $2 billion valuation. Startups and VC. Just in time for the movie.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

” The firm’s investment process begins at the macro level, building actionable investment frameworks based on extensive internal research. “On the venture investing side, Sebastien Mallaby wrote a great history of the VC industry called “The Power Law.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

If you’re a founder who finds yourself in a meeting with a VC, try to remember two things: You’re the smartest person in the room. ” Wilson’s book explores the history of freon, a common refrigerant that was later banned due to its devastating impact on the ozone layer. I hope you have an excellent weekend.

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David Teten VC

MAY 16, 2017

Limited partner due diligence on VC and private equity funds. I’ve collected several lists of limited partners focused on VC. Aggreg8r: LPs in Emerging Micro-VCs. Samir Kaji: Who are the LPs that are investing in underrepresented led VC managers? ” David Dana, Head of VC Investments, European Investment Fund.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

Exploring Shaun Gold’s Entrepreneurial Journey as Nightlife Ninja, Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author, and VC I had the pleasure of interviewing Shaun Gold. He is a successful entrepreneur, VC, 2x best-selling author, speaker, super connector to startups and standouts, Jeopardy contestant, and screenwriter/executive producer.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The funding, a Series A, is being by Threshold Ventures (the VC formerly known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, rebranded in 2019 after none of the namesakes remained at the firm), with an interesting cast of others also participating. million to fuel its growth.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and RSVP for the event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. FundersClub Portfolio News.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As I have pointed out in previous posts , 91% of VCs surveyed believe prices are declining (30% believe substantially) and 77% believe that funding will take longer than it has in the past. This is another thing I strongly advise entrepreneurs to understand and even talk with their VCs about. More Reading.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 — the first in-person Disrupt in three years — is in the books. During the first two days of Disrupt, the companies pitched before judges — multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders — for a chance to win $100,000 and the coveted Battlefield Cup. One startup emerged victorious.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. Not bad, hey? I agree with him.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. Indonesia emerged as the best choice.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2013

It took quite a while to devise this framework and to revise it until it became useful, practical and insightful. I read many books on the topics of competition and strategy. Each of these frameworks evaluates a different aspect of the business. The Grand Unifying Framework - Matrixing Value Chains and P5F.

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The Entrepreneurs Library

JUNE 22, 2015

I write books, I teach in the school of business at Duke University, and I do a lot of speaking and marketing strategy consulting as well. The Book’s Unique Quality (02:46). I really divided the book into three major sections: finding your breakthrough idea, building a following around your idea, and how to monetize your ideas.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History. This post summarizes the parts of his book that deal with U.S. government policy. states continue to experiment with ways to spark entrepreneurial finance.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain&# was “ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain &# by Betty Edwards. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector. For others they swear by music.

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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. Polo: Yeah, because looking at the full picture, it’s actually the first time in our history that we’re going to have a specific legal framework for startups.

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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.

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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.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

47:40 – What’s a must read book and why? Like, everything else, I read a lot of books, like everything that is out there related to startups, founders, but all of that is not in context to what you’re doing. A lot of those books are written outside India. At that time, we just kept listening to VCs.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Frameworks To Become A Billionaire. Or you don't do that that framework? Yeah, I have that framework. Sam: for me, yeah, I have that framework. And you can learn a lot of what you need just by reading the top three books on it and just practicing the craft, right? I know Shaan, you love frameworks.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 21, 2022

I’ll outline below a different framework I came up with to evaluate startup ideas and select a problem worth solving. This new framework is much more powerful in helping entrepreneurs select problems worth solving. But I was still debating which is the right problem to solve. Many do this, too, and it is flawed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Remember to book your tickets to the show today before prices go up $1,100. . Alongside a16z founder Marc Andreessen, general partner Chris Dixon has been integral to the firm’s rise as a giant in the crypto VC world — he was an early investor in startups such as Coinbase, Uniswap and Oculus VR. The State of VC in 2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. But I also believe that the backlash that will happen against ICO fraud will likely burn some people to future participation until and unless there are some frameworks for oversight of the market.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. I got very lucky early on because someone introduced me to a book by David Goldhill called “Catastrophic Care.” healthcare system is confusing and complex. He runs the Game Show Network.

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