Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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StartupNation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Building a brand is definitely a process and requires a strategy. That’s why it’s more than necessary to take as much time as you want to craft a killer branding strategy. Competitor research should be an integral part of your branding strategy. It’s like investing in the foundation of a house.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

million investment to harden AI projects from attack, Kyle reports. Her highly detailed breakdown includes examples of the ads used in various campaigns, the process she used for optimizing creative materials, and a cost-per-click analysis that shows how she reduced CPC from $1.51 Armored AI : Protect AI lands a $13.5 to 17 cents.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

One of the challenges in turning ecosystem building into a recognized profession is the lack of a recognized definition for what it is and what an ecosystem builder is. Clearly, if we’re going to come up with a professional definition of what ecosystem building is, it needs to include this connector/connecting aspect.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 7, 2022

Pandemic restrictions forced us to think creatively, be more innovative and, in many cases, digital adoption has played a big role in that. Smaller businesses that don’t have the funds to invest in professional cybersecurity can be particularly vulnerable.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 8, 2017

The point is, before you wonder who is going to do all of the above, if you do the math on how much better your launch outcome would be, is it even a question whether or not a hire to do this would make for a great investment? The key to hiring this person would be making sure they are extremely organized and process oriented.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Seriously, this happens.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Surreal received nearly 10 investment offers in this round, founder and CEO Xu Zhuo told TechCrunch, as investors jostled to bet on a future shaped by AI-generated content. In fact, Xu doesn’t think machines can surpass human creativity in the next few decades. Reface grabs $5.5M “We focus on the making part.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Too many well-funded teams are lighting VC dollars on fire with strategies that neither reach their target audience nor deliver cost effective acquisition?—?funding Here are two Web3 user acquisition strategies that, if done properly, can be a great area of focus on when the market is down. In my experience, this is a mistake.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Staying attuned to these changes and being willing to pivot our strategies has been instrumental in our growth. It was definitely eye-opening and an expensive lesson. For me, that meant constantly seeking out professional guidance by investing in consultants early on. However, I knew enough to admit what I didn’t know.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 27, 2021

30 Smart Decisions to Scale Your Ecommerce Business In 2022 Strategies that helped us grow a company from $1 million to $68 million in only nine months Photo by Joshua Sukoff on Unsplash If you’re a new entrepreneur and/or an ecommerce business owner, then you know what it’s like when you hit that wall. Anyway, where were we.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

That''s kind of like what it''s like being on board with these companies after you make an early stage investment. In VC, no one''s investment gets bought on the first day, or the second day, or the third day. I got mine just a year after starting to lead investments, but even that felt like forever--and that''s not the norm.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

“In times of crisis, it’s imperative for startups to build a solid analytics strategy to understand how their businesses are functioning at a granular level. Nick Quain , VP, venture development, Invest Ottawa . “Go Strategy and messaging will certainly need to correspond to the times. Go on the offensive.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

Instead, here’s a list of 12 things that have directly or kinda-directly helped me go from living paycheck-to-paycheck, to hiring my first ever financial advisor (because I now have something called savings and investments.) 1: I’m a copywriter and brand strategist, but this should work for most other creative service providers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Vitruvian is a new backer for MPB; the rest were already invested in the startup, which has raised around $91 million since 2011. “With the backing of Vitruvian Partners and those reinvesting in our business, we can accelerate our US and European growth strategy at scale, profitably.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Room for creativity here. Go 1st, create a feedback-loop, build trust / rapport, and invest in the relationship. Stand in a place of creative confidence. discovery, definition, design, development & deployment). When you consider how that is a factor within pricing, it helps you to be creative in pricing strategies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

with participation also from Athos and, significantly, several individuals notable for their roles in creative and developer ecosystems. They include Figma’s former COO (and current VSCO president) Eric Wittman, Cisco’s VP of developer relations strategy Grace Francisco and Google’s “Fonts leader” Dave Crossland.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For some early use cases, creativity > correctness Hallucinations are a known aspect of today’s LLMs, but for some use cases, the ability to make things up is a feature rather than a bug. It’s a strategy that we’ve been using from the beginning. Martin Casado, a16z 3. Entertainment is this $2T a year industry.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The company says goodbye to dear teammates, rallies around its new vision as a multiproduct company, and invests in becoming a long-term sustainable business. Eric Ries said that “a pivot is a change in strategy but not a change in vision?—?” Christine Caine Hopin’s Chapter Two: More Than Events.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Even for companies that have made great progress in diversifying their organizations, there is real risk of reverting to a former homogenous status quo, unless hiring strategies evolve. But data shows that companies with an “always be recruiting” strategy are seldom caught without a great candidate pipeline when a vacancy arises.

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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. The definition of community evolved. Community ??

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

DST Global Partners and Atinum Investment led the latest funding along with its existing backers SoftBank Ventures, Bass Investment and Y Combinator. Those uses that are harder to definitely detect are in turn triaged by humans, but that’s not the case for all of the items MarqVision scans.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’ll also dispel some of the myths that are commonly associated with soft launches and help you figure out if this strategy is right for your game. We’ll also address why there are so many more games soft launched on Google Play (hint: they have more options to support a variety of soft launch strategies).

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

30:00 – Investing in yourself. It felt like my whole life was consumed by this industry, when really, there’s more dimensions to me as a person, and also, what I wanted to do creatively. 00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 3:45 – How he got into programming.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

“We didn’t need the money, but now we will invest it to grow faster and capitalise on our leadership,” Beloussov said in an interview. “With private equity investors like Goldman Sachs [which led its previous round in 2019] and CVC, they definitely expect liquidity at some point,” Beloussov said.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

How to sell online: Choosing where to open your eCommerce store Starting an online store doesn't require as much investment as starting a brick-and-mortar store, but you still have to address many of the same concerns. People are always coming in and out, so you don't have to invest as much to attract shoppers. No extra fees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Late-stage investing has definitely dried up quite a bit… It’s just a matter of time before it sort of trickles down, but there’s a lot of cash in the system right now. I think climate investing, what I do, is still extremely brisk. That has gone down considerably, about 30% from where it used to be.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. He soon set up his own investment fund, Challenjers Capital , convinced that the next big tech opportunity in China was in tech’s application to everyday consumer products. Other investors noticed as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

When I work with community leaders I often encourage them to “pool capital” together from many angels into a fund structure run by a small investment committee that can make more rapid funding decisions, take more risks (it is pooled capital so goes across more investments), and standardize investment terms.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

She was curious to explore a more creative side of marketing as she enjoyed working on UX/UI projects in the past; and I knew firsthand that for the end users, high-quality code without good UX/UI is no different from broken code. Do you have any thoughts on fake agile versus real agile? And why do you believe in the latter?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It is a marketing strategy for a wide marketing campaign. For these reasons, it’s clear you need to elevate your graphic designs to match your marketing strategies. Branding still bears weight most definitely. You can get fun and creative with your banner ads by incorporating animations. Size is a big deal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Even if you don’t have a marketing person on your team, there’s still enough time on the calendar to hire a part-timer by January 1 who can execute several of these strategies and tactics. Image Credits: Paper Boat Creative (opens in a new window) / Getty Images (Image has been modified). Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Before diving in: a growth strategy is nothing without its product and for Morning Brew, the strength of our product comes from our writers. More than anything I’ll talk about in this post, the growth of our audience is because of our content team’s talent and creativity. they were super effective and we had limited resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Think about the creative tension. But wait, aren’t you the guy who invested in Ad.ly, the in-stream advertising company? Two things : 1) when I invested in Ad.ly 2) I also clarified that the strategy of Ad.ly As people consume Twitter on mobile clients they are almost definitionally not doing so on Twitter.com.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

million (~$3.5M) seed investment — a few months after launching (in May) its single-matching service in London and New York (and racking up over 52k downloads). Thursday , a dating app that wants to solve problems created by, well, too much time spent using dating apps, had raised a £2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2022

Pivots — a change in business strategy based on a new insight or market trend — are somewhat inevitable for young companies still chasing product-market fit. D’Amelio family launches VC fund 444 Capital to invest up to $25M in high-growth startups. They think, ‘Oh s**t, not again.’. What about $1.5

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