Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

He also introduced me to the idea of zombie companies, which I appreciated as it is officially spooky season and we love a festive framework. I’ve been seeing a lot of startups recently that want the best of both worlds for consumers, and Getaway is no different — combining both an investment and an enjoyment in one product.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

Unlike traditional lending, angel investment is seldom tied to collateral, college degrees, or other assets that some entrepreneurs don’t have access to. For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. I may see a deal that doesn’t meet my criteria, or I can’t invest in it for some other reason.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. Studios do this by using repeatable frameworks (imagine a factory) to test these ideas and back them with funding and resources in order to launch and grow powerful, scalable startups.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. So we work very hard on trying to drive up the percent of our procurement and investment that is going to those small businesses. We recently wrote about the 100 billion that’s gone in since 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. . After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “I founded Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, our research indicated that the investment landscape is growing increasingly competitive as venture capitalists become more educated and less skeptical. Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? . In two sentences: Web3 is the key to the real metaverse.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Especially if you name your firm Conviction, as Sarah Guo did after leaving Greylock following a decade of investing for the well-known venture group. Guo spoke to TechCrunch’s Equity podcast , co-hosted by Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm, about her inaugural fund and the broader market that she is investing in today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2022, I interviewed Ramp CEO Eric Glyman, Airbase CEO Thejo Kote and Anthemis partner Ruth Foxe Blader on the topic. He referenced “the crazy 2021 period where there was all the insanity around investment in this space,” with investors “willing to pay 100x, 200x multiples.” For Kote, it’s mostly about focus.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The crypto venture capital industry has become more selective thanks to the general market downturn and wavering trust caused by a slew of scandals and market disruptions, but investors at major firms are still writing checks in the space. We surveyed: Michael Anderson , co-founder, Framework Ventures. How big is the DeFi market today?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

So to help founders understand what a good tech stack should look like, we invited two experts on this topic, Preeti Somal , the EVP of Engineering at HashiCorp and Jill Wetzler , the VP of Engineering at Pilot , to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 to discuss everything from evaluating vendors to making sure you can rely on an open source product.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sequoia hosted a private, sponsored AMA for founders in Startup Battlefield and Startup Alley at the virtual Disrupt SF last month. Having sat in the room for five years now, it really requires the stars to align for an investment to happen. Maybe they have done two other investments this year. They feel too busy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

There are multibillion dollar industries that can be disrupted if autonomous vehicles become successful.” “We need the confidence of a clear regulatory framework to invest the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars necessary to manufacture vehicles at scale. “And that’s understandable. ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Walter Thompson Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+ @yourprotagonist Just starting out angel investing? “There simply aren’t enough entrepreneurs providing adequately ESG-aligned investing opportunities,” according to T. Avoid these 7 mistakes. Investors want best-of-the-best ESG data. Here’s how to give it to them.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The new funding will be mainly invested into product development and R&D, including expanding product, data and engineering teams. The company will also look at its sales and marketing framework. Teams don’t realize that if you are helping colleagues understand, showing them a light they didn’t have before, it will drive impact.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

15 sectors pi Ventures expects deep tech to disrupt in the next 5 years. “If you invest too early in an innovation, then you will have suboptimal returns,” said founding partner Manish Singhal. “If If you invest too late, you may also end up getting suboptimal returns, because it is no longer a cutting-edge thing.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Here is a framework that can help you delve deeper into your quest to choose the right startup business: Self-Evaluation : What interests, hobbies, and passions do you have? This is particularly true of industries where technology is disrupting business models.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Compatible with existing cloud environments, machine learning frameworks like Google’s TensorFlow and Meta’s PyTorch and even other AI accelerator engines, Modular’s engine, currently in closed preview, lets developers import trained models and run them up to 7.5 ” Ambitious much? It’s already had an impact.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

One lesson — which was especially true at Amex — is to always be prepared for shifting markets that may disrupt your business. I find Clayton Christensen’s jobs to be done (JTBD) framework very powerful because it’s relevant to the product, marketing and strategy teams. What problem are they solving?

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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: 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

He has researched how to bring disparate areas of stochastic optimization together under one framework that he has dubbed “ sequential decision analytics ” to optimize problems where each decision in a series places constraints on future decisions. Such problems are common in areas like logistics, scheduling and other key areas of business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

This seed round is one more signal of how a16z is investing these days. It continues to work aggressively in fintech as an investment category (an area that also includes its many cryptocurrency investments, too); and it’s making ever-more bets on promising startups out of Europe as it widens its scope beyond Silicon Valley.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 10, 2024

This is a corpus of data-based best practices in investing, company-building, and related issues. Ive applied that framework to everything in my life, which is why I have so many notes on best practices in different domains. How should family offices invest in tech companies? How can I originate proprietary investments?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

To be sure, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted and profoundly altered many aspects of work life, including in-person diversity training and workforce development. Founders need to invest in their employees of color by allowing them to participate in professional development programs to create the next generation of executives — that’s equity.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We’ve reviewed over 100 of the approximately 350 available seed investment opportunities in market since the launch of our first fund in 2021, without a concrete focus on the seed stage. It became wildly apparent the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Our workshops help startup teams design a customer journey using the pirate metrics framework and turn that into a clear, step-by-step action plan which they can implement or outsource. We work with B2B and B2C SaaS companies, as well as more traditional businesses who are looking to disrupt the way things are done in their industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange. Insider hacks to streamline your SOC 3 certification application.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Durable Temporal calls itself a “durable execution system” that allows companies to manage an application’s state and monitor the execution of logic, all the while enabling them to push out software updates without disruption.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Their discussion, which took place at TechCrunch Disrupt, also addressed the value of using test suites and selecting a reliable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework. Companies that choose not to invest in finding the best person for this role will inevitably regret it later. asked Wetzler.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

Decision framework. ? The memo sets the context for the discussion, articulates their decision framework, and explains why they are recommending a particular approach. After understanding conflicting viewpoints, use a decision-making framework (as an example see one below) to guide the discussion. Options they considered. ?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The European Union also recently presented a platform worker reform — saying at the end of last year that it would establish a framework to tackle bogus self employment. “The other thing that we need is investment. . “The other thing that we need is investment. All the tax incentives.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

In an exclusive interview, Lok shares his insights into startup investments, his investment strategies, and his vision for the future of Awesome Ventures, offering a glimpse into the exciting world of entrepreneurship and innovation. What types of sectors do you look to invest in? And what’s your mental model for investing?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

Here are some other AI stories of note from the past few days: Dario Amodei is coming to Disrupt: We’ll be interviewing the Anthropic co-founder about what it’s like to have so much money. But considering Google’s half-baked AI product launches lately (see its attempt at a ChatGPT rival, Bard ), I’m not too confident.

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