Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry. Being problem-oriented prevents the anchoring effect (putting too much merit on an initial reference point) and confirmation bias (interpreting data to reinforce your opinion or solution).

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Register EdgeCortix , a Japan-based fabless semiconductor development and design company specializing in edge artificial intelligence (AI), announced the successful conclusion of its $20 million funding round. The company plans to channel these resources into the development and launch of the next generation of SAKURA hardware products.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The seed raise also includes a $1 million non-equity grant from the Polish National Centre of Research and Development. It also says it allows GPs and smaller practices to offer ECG analysis to patients without needing to refer them to specialist hospitals. Our clients check it everyday in clinical practice.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I wanted GSA to give me a framework for a signature talk and help me understand what topic and how best to present on it. I have also developed a women’s leadership retreat in Tuscany, Italy. Second, learning a proven system for developing a signature talk and the takeaway value from applying that system to multiple topics.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Price low to minimize adoption friction, grow quickly, and then move up-market after developing broad adoption. Skimming is less common in the software world because few startups develop a product at launch that will be accepted by the most sophisticated customers (and those willing to pay prices that generate the greatest margin).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

The company says that it provides interested clubs with the back office framework, legal and tax support and has a platform where leaders can look for capital raise opportunities, meet other members and manage portfolios. PIN, which stands for power in numbers, has freshly raised a $5.6 You can’t buy a community, so make it worth it.

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StartupNation

MAY 20, 2025

Building strong teams in tech startups isn’t just about hiring skilled developers — it’s about fostering ownership, motivation and long-term commitment. Non-violent management as a framework for growth At the end of the day, the success of a startup depends on its people.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

At its most fundamental level, open banking refers to the process of using APIs to open up consumers’ financial data to third parties. One is that the banking industry will need to develop much more rigorous systems to continually seek consumer consent for data to be shared in this way. Open-banking models raise a number of challenges.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

If Nuro is to become the generation-defining company its founders desire, it will be due as much to innovation in regulation as advances in the technology it develops. R2X is now referred to as R2). They were wrong. In a 2019 letter to the U.S. “And that’s understandable. .” Regulate for success.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. million to fuel its growth. ” It is not the only company in this wider area getting a lot of attention.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. It’s also not the first company pursuing an in-memory architecture for edge devices. MemVerge, GigaSpaces, Hazelcast and H20.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Several others said they started exploring the space after developing an interest in crypto. In addition to discussing potential applications in advertising, fintech and enterprise apps, respondents shared their advice for web3 founders who are hunting for funding, along with their concerns about factors that could stall its development.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

And if you choose to go after them, it will probably benefit your company’s development enormously thanks to the first-mover advantage, if done right. For example, think of the first companies that developed the payment protocols that gave birth to the first credit cards.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Firebase at a glance Here's how Supabase and Firebase stack up at a glance: Supabase is best for vibe coders who prefer working with structured data and are already using modern development tools like Replit , Vercel , or Bolt —especially those comfortable with spreadsheet-like data organization.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 30, 2024

Our team at a16z bio + health has outlined several frameworks for thinking about AI applications in healthcare ( here , here , here ), and one I reference frequently is a simple 2×2 diagram of tasks that are easy vs hard for humans, and easy vs hard for AI. They have spoken to biopharma companies developing new therapies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Strong Compute , a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 million seed round. Image Credits: Strong Compute. “That was a big win,” Sands said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

With much of the finance world now leveraging technology to conduct business, predict trends and deliver services, financial services regulators are also developing new technologies to monitor markets, supervise financial institutions and conduct other administrative activities. ” It’s a little circular, but helpful.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It claims to use modern frameworks that allow it to “build much quicker” than existing offerings. The entrepreneur’s experience with subscriptions goes back to high school, where he said he started skipping class to do web development for a subscription box startup called Conscious Box. Image Credits: Skio.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 16, 2013

A startup’s sales evolution contains three phases: beta, reference customer, ROI calculator. Beta : A founder of the startup develops relationships with a handful of customers who will work in tandem with the company to design, tune and improve the product. These customers benefit by disproportionately influencing product development.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Engineers employ design patterns to accelerate development by leveraging the work and insight of others. Many keep a copy on their desks for reference. She gave me frameworks for delivering difficult feedback, structuring groups, motivating teams, and obtaining team committment to drive success.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. One thing you can do is check references with founders that those investors have worked with – just as with recruiting any talent. Decision framework. ? option grants). Hiring Scale.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

But Piero Molino, the co-founder of AI development platform Predibase , says that inadequate tooling often exacerbates them. “Given these challenges, organizations today need to choose between two flawed approaches when it comes to developing machine learning. These are ultimately organizational challenges.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They weren’t even done with the design before they started building , leading to inevitable changes after long lead-time items were already in development. There are also fuel cycles in development using thorium-232 as fertile material to breed fissile uranium-233 within the reactor, instead of starting with uranium-235.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

An ecosystem builder is a champion for others…” Whether they’re referred to as cheerleaders or champions, many of the Unsung Heroes we interviewed believe that singing the praises of others and amplifying the voices of others in the system is central to being an ecosystem builder. .” Advocating, Championing, Cheerleading. “An

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

Specifically, we are spending time developing our theses around and seeking founders building the next generation of cloud/computing infrastructure, industry 4.0 and intelligent verticals, the augmentation and automation of software development, and applications and infrastructure around generative AI.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Many CEOs can’t afford to simply exist within the status quo frameworks they enjoyed as part of a rosy 2021. Many that have not yet done so are having intentional discussions about whether they should, particularly at a time when they’re dropping marketing spend and cutting back on both research and development plans and pet projects.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

And execution means developing the right habits. And execution means developing the right habits. According to research, entrepreneurs who continuously learn and develop new skills are more likely to succeed long-term. One way to develop this habit is to spend two hours each day working on your number one thing.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I've been covering AI developments for almost a decade now, and the idea of AI tools that can be trusted to operate independently has always been exciting—and just out of reach. Agentic AI is the latest attempt to create a framework for what these tools would look like and how they could safely operate. So let's dig in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Developing or revising a pricing model is a complex, multi-dimensional problem. 5 key questions in our pricing strategy framework. These questions and others can be answered by estimating the willingness to pay from three key reference points: Price is the most obvious element, but there are many others.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The process of debating and agreeing the details of this startup ecosystem support framework is expected to take between six and nine months. Polo: Yeah, because looking at the full picture, it’s actually the first time in our history that we’re going to have a specific legal framework for startups. Which is much simpler.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

I continued to listen to non-e-commerce pitches as well, simply to give myself a point of reference for evaluating online shopping opportunities. I wanted to work with great investors, too, and fortunately I had the ability either to work with Accel-funded companies, start my own or leverage other investor relationships I’d developed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For the food replacement product, Habitual says it worked with a product development consultancy that had previously done development work for the European Soylent-rival Huel to develop the formulations. gallery ids="2212427,2212428,2212429,2212430,2212431"].

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

Over the past two weeks, I vibe coded project management, eCommerce, and game apps, spacing my development cycles due to the daily prompt limitations. They fall into a set of categories that make them too developer-grade, focusing on tasks they have to perform every day for work. Design is where you can interact with each screen.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

federal government involvement in the formation and development of the venture capital industry. government played a decisive role in getting the whole thing kickstarted, and for a period of time, sustained its development in the early stages. The Act also continues a long-standing tradition of U.S. federal government.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Train your team to use experimentation frameworks. Make it part of the product development process. In the early days, we were building two to three features per week and it took us a couple of weeks to build the framework we needed around MySQL. When giving feedback, refer to the relevant sections in the style guide.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Led by Prosperity7 Ventures — a $1 billion venture fund created by Saudi oil giant Aramco (the name is a reference to the first commercial well to strike oil in the country) — the round also includes previous Chinese backers Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, and Yunqi Capital.

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