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Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital: Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.

Hunter Walk

This one is “what advice do you have for someone who is a new VC analyst or wants to join a firm at that level?” Or some data analysis competency. Pick something that is matched against the stage and markets you partner is investing in and just become the go-to person for the founders.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

I knew him well before he became a VC. I knew his as he considered becoming a VC and we talked a lot about how it was going for me in my early years. Hell, I can barely manage 10 investments – how could anybody do 500? He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

TechCrunch

Friederike Grosse-Holz, a director at impact investment firm Blue Horizon, said lab-grown meat is “a little like a moonshot,” but predicts that 11% of the seafood, meat, eggs and dairy consumed globally in 2035 will come from alternative sources. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership.

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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

TechCrunch

Polo: We consider that the draft for the startup ecosystem law that was approved on December 10 actually represents a revolution — for the attraction of investment and the attraction of talent. And it’s going to really become a great tool for the attraction of investment and talent.

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Decipad wants to help everyone do data modelling

TechCrunch

. “We are intentionally taking a more generalist approach,” she confirms, adding: “With today’s access to data, the rise of no-code and a shifting culture toward creating in the open, we see an opportunity for a new, more modern approach to data analysis and knowledge collaboration that can’t be fragile to specific use cases.

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Optimize for authentic relationships, not bluster

This is going to be BIG.

Hilary has had both a major impact on my personally--by helping to push the envelope on the kind of data analysis work we were doing at Path 101. When we hired her, we leveled up in terms of our technology and Big Data chops. Venture capital isn't a game or club any more than any other industry is.

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

There’s no shortage of startups trying to make sense of the explosive growth of data generated from blockchain applications. Nansen has the support from a16z to provide on-chain data analysis for crypto investors. The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. KNN3 said it has raised $2.4