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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. Or running data analysis projects. Sometimes I write a post just to be able to send the URL to people when they ask me a specific question.

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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. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. The Dave I know, I’ve known for 6 years. Sounds obvious.

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

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Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. Investors are hungry for startups to throw their money at, but VC funding isn’t always the right option at all times or for every startup. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. @yourprotagonist.

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

TechCrunch

Polo: One of the drivers of our work as the high commissioner is working with data and the data that we are using is that is the knowledge that the average startup lasts between three to five years — before it goes under or before it is acquired by another company. But also we have a more specific number in Spain.

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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. That's when I reemerged on Josh Kopelman's radar and he decided to offer me a job at First Round.

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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.