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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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Democratizing Design

Andreessen Horowitz

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? I have a demo and I can show off some stuff. Jambot demo Dylan: If you haven’t seen FigJam, this is our whiteboarding and brainstorming product. David: To start, fiery question.

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Your MVP is neither minimal, viable nor a product

TechCrunch

Will an incumbent copy us and destroy us? If you have a number of incumbents in your space, do some research and see how they have reacted to other startups. If the incumbents are routinely stealing innovations, invest more in patents and set some money aside for lawyers. Could a video demo get you the answers you need?

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B2FI: Demystifying Software Sales Into Financial Institutions

Andreessen Horowitz

At a16z, we have made it a top priority to connect with key decision makers at various financial services institutions; we do this through dinners with our portfolio company CEOs and executives, briefings with line-of-business owners, and demo days.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

began demoing an accelerator chipset that combines “traditional compute IP” from Arm with a custom machine learning accelerator and dedicated vision accelerator, linked via a proprietary interconnect, To lay the groundwork for future growth, Sima.ai After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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These Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’

TechCrunch

“I released Yuma as a prototype for fun in mid-December 2022, and was overwhelmed with demo requests,” Luccisano said. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. ” How well Lasso works in practice remains to be seen.

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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Early KKR executive Donald Herdrich is said to have bought an Apple IIe in 1980 for his children, got a demo of VisiCalc at the electronics store, and that turned into a decisive advantage for KKR going forward. Verification, validation, obscure corner cases, automation of tedious tasks—all of these can be done by AI.