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14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams

Startup Blogpost

When the idea of starting a business is pitched, it is human nature to get excited about it, but when the actual work begins, team members may slack off and fade away. They have an opportunity to set realistic expectations for achievable goals. But when you let people make their own decisions, then a few things happen.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

Company overview deck If you’re under CDA with an investor, this is where to add your expanded confidential pitch deck (typically, you’ve already shared a non-confidential deck over email). Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? key in vivo data results).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Generative AI for proptech, cloud vendor shopping, cybersecurity fairy tales

TechCrunch

“The opportunity for entrepreneurs in real estate tech across search, listings, mortgage, insurance, construction and sustainability is the kind that shows up once a generation.” . ” Choosing a cloud infrastructure provider: A beginner’s guide What do investors need from your problem slide?

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

What’s going to happen to those semi-vacant office towers, some of which are still under construction? Amid the pandemic, investors became laser-focused on sections of the pitch deck that address monetization and business viability — signs that founders need to come to the table with better-defined businesses in order to succeed.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. The mission is the elevator pitch. ” And so that framework helps think that through before you start talking to folks, which I think is very smart. Many founders I’ve worked with are like, “well, that’s why you’re here.

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The New Business Preservation Act and the Tradition of U.S. Federal Government Support for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Ian Hathaway

As venture capitalist and economic historian Bill Janeway remarked : “… the federal government funded construction of a platform on which entrepreneurs and venture capitalists could dance.” What may be less known is the federal government’s central role in the birth and early development of the venture capital industry specifically.