Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

13% of GDP is construction – the largest industry. 18% of all errors come from people using the wrong documents. hours are spent every day by workers searching for documents. Believing your own hype: And this data subtly sinks into the psyche of your company. It becomes folklore. 23% of all costs are inefficient.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Briq , which has developed a fintech platform used by the construction industry, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Briq CEO and co-founder Bassem Hamdy is a former executive at construction tech giant Procore (which recently went public and has a market cap of $10.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

If you’ve ever had to get a construction permit, you know that the process can be very painful and time-consuming. It’s a lofty claim, but if Pulley can well, pull that off, it could be revolutionary for the construction industry, where time is very much money. Commercial construction in the U.S. million toward that effort.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 8, 2018

You know that employees benefit from constructive feedback. Even the greatest leaders struggle with providing constructive and beneficial performance reviews. Specify consequences if improvements are not made— Document necessary improvements. Still, it’s hard to deliver effective feedback. FOR FEEDBACK TO EFFECTIVE: .

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company. While you have undoubtedly already shared these responses by email or live discussion, it’s helpful to see all the correspondence documents in one place.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The push back usually boiled down to some version of: “We have this great plan that we spent a number of weeks documenting, socializing, and cascading through the organization. Board construction is really challenging, especially in a startup. I am going to look stupid.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

On Construction Technology Over 1.5 In 2015, a professor named Andrew Tallon painstakingly used laser scanning and spatial mapping technology to document Notre Dame. On Fundraising News Prefab construction startup Dvele raised $14M to build single family homes.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. These agreements may be inappropriate, unfeasible, or unwise to put in your signed legal documents.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

They have a basic accounting system, know how to construct a budget and have policies and procedures for accounts receivable and accounts payable. It takes effort and hours to gather, verify and package all this information for external review, so it helps to know what data and documents will be needed well before you enter the process.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 7, 2019

That only worked because you could connect everyone via technology—routing phonecalls, e-mails, design documents, etc. Every new job or set of tasks was treated as unique and constructing teams was viewed as a challenge—so agency work from McKinsey to IDEO, or your corporate law firm, was very expensive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. Stephane Levy, a construction industry veteran, is of the persuasion that technology can solve many of these issues.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Three out of five respondents said their companies don’t have a documented plan to handle a leadership change, even though, by that same ratio, they acknowledge that a documented plan is the biggest determinant in seamless transitions. But this documented history cannot be a hagiography of the departing CEO.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 25, 2022

They are stuck relying on an inert document that has no way to reflect the circumstances of the moment. Like the retirement of the traditional road map, it is time to retire the inert strategic document. When building a rolling and dynamic strategic plan it is essential to construct a solid foundation upon which to build.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 24, 2019

This one hour can set the tone for the rest of your day: Use it constructively by exercising or meditating and try to avoid arguments, junk food, or other things that can throw you off your game. I personally like to have at least one vertical monitor for reading and writing documents. Tip 2: Use Time-Management Techniques.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As with just about any AI models, WhiteLab Genomics uses myriad datasets to train its algorithms spanning genomic, RNA, oncologic, and protein repositories, in addition to “an exhaustive set of documentation” such as public scientific and clinical research data.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

While the big funds hire people to do this and the new angel/seed funds are just starting out and don’t even think about it when starting — it’s somewhere between years 3-5 where I’ve noticed this starts to sink in.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

It is also intended to house key comms around the contract negotiation/bid process, through baked in messaging, document exchange and on-site meeting scheduling features. ” Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. times over 2020. We are the only startup targeting architects and their clients.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Blockchain networks are a new construction material for building a better internet. Very few people know whether today’s apps are built with, just as they don’t consider the construction materials of their office building. 2 Venmo started with MongoDB & then moved to Amazon Document DB. And no one will know.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TrustLayer says that companies that use its platform can automate the verification of insurance, licenses and compliance documents of business partners such as vendors, subcontractors, suppliers, borrowers, tenants, ridesharing and franchisees. (By

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Dig deep into the documentation and see if the company is in a strong financial position and if they have a sustainable business model. They can include lease costs, construction and/or renovation costs, equipment costs, purchase of inventory and the ability to cover operations for up to six months.

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StartupNation

APRIL 21, 2021

Your video needs a story arc: a structured, well-documented journey. Construct a clear call to action. As Indiegogo indicates, crowdfunding campaigns with pitch videos tend to get four times the backing of those without a video. Just make sure that in your eagerness to be creative, you don’t forget to include specifics.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 30, 2014

If you’re seeking investment from anyone other than friends and family, you’re probably going to have to navigate through the exercise of careful planning, documentation and execution. Without even pausing to document the process internally, no-one can easily take over the job, if for any reason the cowboy coder is no longer in control.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The companies attending (and what they're hiring for) below: OneSignal (Growth): Engage customers through personalized omni-channel messaging (Infrastructure and Product Engineers, Product Managers) Instawork (Growth): Flexible work app that connects businesses with hourly workers (Engineeing, Product, Design; Financial Analyst, SDRs) Seam (Series (..)

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

In addition, the certifications are lengthy, and it is typically up to property managers to parse through the insurance documents to identify what is missing rather than spending time with tenants. “In With much of the work being done by hand, current accuracy is at about 30%, he added. We wondered why there wasn’t technology for this.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If you’re seeking investment from anyone other than friends and family, you’re probably going to have to navigate through the exercise of careful planning, documentation and execution. Critical components of any operation or business must be carefully constructed, tested and inserted into the operation of the business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 28, 2019

Security and documentation principles and processes. It is wise to ask this question directly and to expect a solid and well-constructed answer. The review should include: Technical interviews. Code sample reviews. Design / UX reviews. Examples of software that the partner has built that are already live and in use. Quality assurance.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

Establish a feedback loop where team members receive constructive feedback on their performance. It shows you who has updated the task, and you can include documents, images, and other attachments in the task. To track and share progress, leverage project management and collaboration tools such as Trello, Asana, or Jira.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This is a helpful construct because if the company has to negotiate with lenders or investors, particularly under financial duress, it’s much better to only have to deal with one or two of them on behalf of all noteholders rather than having many simultaneous discussions and running the risk that one minority investor could derail the whole thing.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Teknobuilt, a UK-Canada-based startup with innovative technologies in digital program management, construction workflow automation, and SaaS platform services for AI-based project delivery, participated in KSGC 2020. It uses cutting-edge NLP and OCR technologies to find all the relevant fields and values inside the document.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 22, 2023

The model then constructs an API call. We're definitely big fans of libraries like django-ninja or FastAPI for creating compelling APIs with baked-in types and documentation. Then once in a developer’s platform, the only required field for the user is the natural language instruction.

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Reforge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

With the evolution of agile development and the acceleration of software-centric businesses, product teams realized that static documents aren’t the best tool to represent dynamic creative work. As my team grows, I wonder if I need to go back to doing PRDs to get back into the “discipline of documenting what we’re building and why.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

John ultimately sold those businesses or exited out of them but documented some of the things that he learned. million dollar construction business. John Warrilow has been involved in a few startup businesses and claims that he’s made every mistake there is to make. This is why we feel confident taking his advice!) Maybe you have a $2.5

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

We will vigorously document the structure, projects, programs, relationships, strategies and tactics used by the coordinator. I feel like we are solidifying the foundation of the house and beginning to frame it out, but this “construction job” will have a number of phases.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2014

There are many ways to construct a statement of work and they are often industry dependent. For this reason, SOWs can be a vital document in the handoff between sales and customer success and can also form the basis for better collaboration between the two teams.In These documents don’t have to be very lengthy or involved.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Before Tracy Young was co-founder and CEO of TigerEye, she held identical roles at construction productivity software startup PlanGrid. Time is on your side : Musical tastes change, so to document it, Spotify’s new time capsule feature will let you revisit your musical taste a year from now, Aisha writes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Flexbase is turning construction financing on its head with a new credit card — the industry’s first, according to the founders — that offers up to 60 days interest-free financing. Rahman, a Theil Fellow, and Solh grew up in construction families, hearing stories around the dinner table of cash flow pain points.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CostCertified , a Canadian startup which provides real-time, interactive residential construction estimates, raised $8.45 Put simply, CostCertified today is a price configurator tool for construction, but the Calgary, Alberta-based company’s end goal is to build the “Amazon for construction.” million in a seed round of funding.

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