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Step 1: Get MAD – Remember your M ission, assess your A ssets, document the D emand. D: Document the Demand – List out any loud signals the market or your customers have given you of things they want. MORE
Active angels work with term sheets regularly, but not every investor fully understands the sometimes arcane language in these highly-specialized documents. MORE
249 Dropbox announced today that it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 million The company helps customers share and track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment. DocSend raises $8M for smarter document sharing. MORE
But to find what is important, we usually have to at least scan a document or email, engaged for no less than a short moment and perhaps for the full reading of the document before moving on to look for important issues to resolve. But there is good research to back up the statement that returning to a reading from a distraction causes the reader to lose up to 20% of his or her time in getting back to speed in mentally processing the document and its issues. MORE
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The deal lead and founders worked hard together to line up investors, negotiate terms, work through deal documents and disclosure schedules, and track down every last detail of cap tables. The moment of truth has arrived: it is time to close the round. MORE
When you do so, you’ll notice the milestone’s color will darken and your SSRL score (in the upper left corner of the document) will increase. MORE
And I also like the idea of documenting this pandemic in photos so we can remember it when its in the rear view mirror. I backed a bunch of projects this morning on Kickstarter and this one really stuck with me. I like supporting young creators who are putting their work out there and seeking funding for it. USV TEAM POSTS: crowdfunding MORE
This document should also highlight any major accomplishments or awards. Use these documents to provide a clear and easy-to-understand description of what your product or service is, how it works, pricing, and the unique value proposition that makes you stand out from the competition. MORE
Engineers prefer to spend time in Github evaluating a product’s technical prowess, in the documentation to learn how to wield the technology, and in the forums understanding the nature of the community. Technical acumen, applied content marketing, and superlative documentation build that trust. The side door leads to documentation, blog posts, community brought via referral. Side-door is documentation. Many companies today pursue a pincer GTM. MORE
Earlier this week, I backed a photobook project on Kickstarter to document many of the artists who live there. The Gotham Gal and I have lived a block away from Westbeth for almost fifteen years. Westbeth is a treasure. It was Bell Labs for most of the first half of the twentieth century and became an artist community in 1970 about twenty years after Bell Labs left for New Jersey. That project was funded and is over now. MORE
Was Docusign just a place to get electronic signatures done, or could it have more tentacles into document-management systems across a variety of sectors? But over that five year period, signing documents online turned out to be a very important and profitable product feature, to the tune over $10B in market value. Over five years ago, as I began to deploy the first Haystack Fund, I was lucky to select HelloSign as my sixth investment ever. MORE
First-time entrepreneurs asked to document their hypotheses about Pains and Benefits often experience “blank canvas” paralysis , the inability to get started because of a lack of a clear starting point. Your company’s value proposition must provide benefits that perfectly match your customers’ pains. MORE
TrekIT’s unique, clinician-designed platform improves provider wellbeing, helps teams find critical data they need, when they need it, while also increasing revenue for the health system by optimizing documentation workflows.” MORE
Developer documentation is one of the differentiators in developer community building efforts. If you’re an engineer, and you hear about an interesting project, the first place you’ll land is the documentation. How should B2D companies invest in their documentation? Pavi has more than 20 years of experience leading documentation and user education initiatives, at companies such as Salesforce, Amazon, Mesosphere, and MongoDB. MORE
Artificial Intelligence Column Labor Real Estate Startups Venture Capital Banking construction coronavirus COVID-19 document management financial services machine learning project management real estateAllison Xu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. MORE
From using voice analysis to identify behavioral health issues to streamlining physician documentation of patient interactions, startups have incorporated voice technology to improve the value and efficiency of care. Using Voice Tech to Improve Physician Documentation and Note-Taking Physician burnout has increased at a rapid rate over the past few years. Physicians spend hours each week documenting their patient interactions in the EHR. Voice tech is on the rise. MORE
One of the key documents for starting a business is a business plan. If you’re looking for investment capital, it’s an important document for investors to review to learn more about your company. These documents also tend to be written three to five years in advance. MORE
From fundraising document templates , to tips on how to pitch , to strategies for navigating COVID — we hope that our library offers something useful to every founder. We’re excited to announce the launch of the YC Startup Library, found at ycombinator.com/library. MORE
We decided to leverage the assets that we had at our disposal, take a break from trying to sell to people and create a document of all the things we really wanted the people around us to see. This document was written during the first week of the 21-day lockdown in South Africa. MORE
Meet Collabio Spaces : An office suite app with a cloudless co-authoring twist that looks helpful if you need to collaborate on documents without having to worry about losing control of your data or the thread of changes. “[The] session lasts til the host keeps the document open. MORE
So to be clear, if a company owns 8% of your company but has negative blocking rights as outlined above in the NVCA guidelines, you are ineligible for the program unless you modify your legal governing documents. MORE
NASA has issued a new request for proposals from partners that would be able to help it supplement its own storytelling in new and innovative ways, including potentially through use of robotic camera systems, high-resolution and 360-degree video capture, immersive VR content and more. MORE
On a case-by-case basis, investors are willing to remove blocking language from company documents, lower their ownership percentage so they’re not in a blocking position, and aggregate their ownership across funds to a single fund manager. MORE
Then find ways to build concepts, plans, documents, and actions through the collective collaboration of your key group. Create a document with your basic plan or idea for action. MORE
Here is Gunderson’s document library. Typically the only thing we all have to agree on is what the cap table will look like before and after the financing so that the correct numbers are put into the documents. Many founders want to do SAFE note financings for their early rounds to save time and money. MORE
15 years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager (or 4×3 foot poster) to help you quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind your business model. [This is part of a series on the KISS Canvas ]. MORE
You hear so much about data these days that you might forget that a huge amount of the world runs on documents : a veritable menagerie of heterogeneous files and formats holding enormous value yet incompatible with the new era of clean, structured databases. “People love documents. MORE
With many of these tools, “they don’t do the work of connecting and building the relationship,” between data she said, adding that “documentation is still important, but being able to automatically generate [metadata] allows data teams to get value right away.”. MORE
It is not common for the CEO of a rapidly growing company to think of slowing down the furious pace enough to have each manager (including the CEO) document the job process managed, as well as see to the documentation for each process managed below. And it is even more of a challenge to consider documenting the tribal knowledge of a company’s key employees. Especially when we are young, we feel invincible, and documenting tribal knowledge seems a chore with no reward. MORE
Changing the deal that late in the game is nearly impossible, after other investors have already completed their documents and the deal supposedly put to bed. How do you confront the investors who have already agreed to terms and even perhaps signed their documents? Then again, it is those improbable future events that end up causing lawsuits years later, often just because a party to an agreement did not understand the implication of a clause or even a document. MORE
What is most important is that everyone in an organization prioritizes documentation; exactly how they do it is secondary. What is most important is that everyone in an organization prioritizes documentation; exactly how they do it is secondary. Chris Buttenham. Contributor. MORE
Clinicians will be able to capture and seamlessly upload wound images and other documentation, including automated measurements, to the WoundExpert platform. "In MORE
Plus, I'd make the argument that Docracy's initial userbase will be people who otherwise wouldn't have went to a lawyer at all, going without documentation or using something probably not appropriate for them. There's also no reason why you can't pay your lawyer to draft a document, put it up on Docracy for the sake of transparancy, and fork it when you need to make private adjustments for individual situations. That's why it has to charge for its documents. MORE
We’re grateful to GSEA for providing this wonderful platform and letting us document it.”. MORE
It is not common for the CEO of a rapidly growing company to think of slowing down the furious pace enough to have each manager (including the CEO) document the job process managed, as well as see to the documentation for each process managed below. MORE
This five-page document from the Kauffman Foundation is excerpted from a forthcoming report exploring the current capital landscape across the nation and identifying barriers faced by underserved entrepreneurs. MORE
Most developers don’t enjoy writing documentation for their code and that makes life quite a bit harder when a new team member tries to get started on working on a company’s codebase. Ideally, this will reduce the drift between the codebase and documentation. MORE
Health Tensor reduces burnout through automated COVID-19 documentation. The burden of documentation falls on front line caregivers, consuming more than 50% of their day. MORE
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Here is Gunderson’s document library. Typically the only thing we all have to agree on is what the cap table will look like before and after the financing so that the correct numbers are put into the documents. Many founders want to do SAFE note financings for their early rounds to save time and money.
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You hear so much about data these days that you might forget that a huge amount of the world runs on documents : a veritable menagerie of heterogeneous files and formats holding enormous value yet incompatible with the new era of clean, structured databases. “People love documents.
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Most developers don’t enjoy writing documentation for their code and that makes life quite a bit harder when a new team member tries to get started on working on a company’s codebase. Ideally, this will reduce the drift between the codebase and documentation.
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Dropbox announced today that it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 million The company helps customers share and track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment. DocSend raises $8M for smarter document sharing.
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Meet Collabio Spaces : An office suite app with a cloudless co-authoring twist that looks helpful if you need to collaborate on documents without having to worry about losing control of your data or the thread of changes. “[The] session lasts til the host keeps the document open.
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Developer documentation is one of the differentiators in developer community building efforts. If you’re an engineer, and you hear about an interesting project, the first place you’ll land is the documentation. How should B2D companies invest in their documentation? Pavi has more than 20 years of experience leading documentation and user education initiatives, at companies such as Salesforce, Amazon, Mesosphere, and MongoDB.
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Plus, I'd make the argument that Docracy's initial userbase will be people who otherwise wouldn't have went to a lawyer at all, going without documentation or using something probably not appropriate for them. There's also no reason why you can't pay your lawyer to draft a document, put it up on Docracy for the sake of transparancy, and fork it when you need to make private adjustments for individual situations. That's why it has to charge for its documents.
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JANUARY 30, 2020
It is not common for the CEO of a rapidly growing company to think of slowing down the furious pace enough to have each manager (including the CEO) document the job process managed, as well as see to the documentation for each process managed below.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 27, 2012
Changing the deal that late in the game is nearly impossible, after other investors have already completed their documents and the deal supposedly put to bed. How do you confront the investors who have already agreed to terms and even perhaps signed their documents? Then again, it is those improbable future events that end up causing lawsuits years later, often just because a party to an agreement did not understand the implication of a clause or even a document.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
With many of these tools, “they don’t do the work of connecting and building the relationship,” between data she said, adding that “documentation is still important, but being able to automatically generate [metadata] allows data teams to get value right away.”.
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NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Artificial Intelligence Column Labor Real Estate Startups Venture Capital Banking construction coronavirus COVID-19 document management financial services machine learning project management real estateAllison Xu. Contributor. Share on Twitter.
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Berkonomics
MARCH 28, 2013
It is not common for the CEO of a rapidly growing company to think of slowing down the furious pace enough to have each manager (including the CEO) document the job process managed, as well as see to the documentation for each process managed below. And it is even more of a challenge to consider documenting the tribal knowledge of a company’s key employees. Especially when we are young, we feel invincible, and documenting tribal knowledge seems a chore with no reward.
Berkonomics
MAY 17, 2011
But to find what is important, we usually have to at least scan a document or email, engaged for no less than a short moment and perhaps for the full reading of the document before moving on to look for important issues to resolve. But there is good research to back up the statement that returning to a reading from a distraction causes the reader to lose up to 20% of his or her time in getting back to speed in mentally processing the document and its issues.
The Seraf Compass
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The deal lead and founders worked hard together to line up investors, negotiate terms, work through deal documents and disclosure schedules, and track down every last detail of cap tables. The moment of truth has arrived: it is time to close the round.
Berkonomics
JULY 2, 2020
Then find ways to build concepts, plans, documents, and actions through the collective collaboration of your key group. Create a document with your basic plan or idea for action.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 14, 2021
We’re grateful to GSEA for providing this wonderful platform and letting us document it.”.
StartupNation
JANUARY 28, 2021
One of the key documents for starting a business is a business plan. If you’re looking for investment capital, it’s an important document for investors to review to learn more about your company. These documents also tend to be written three to five years in advance.
TechCrunch
MARCH 2, 2021
What is most important is that everyone in an organization prioritizes documentation; exactly how they do it is secondary. What is most important is that everyone in an organization prioritizes documentation; exactly how they do it is secondary. Chris Buttenham. Contributor.
Dream It
MARCH 28, 2020
Health Tensor reduces burnout through automated COVID-19 documentation. The burden of documentation falls on front line caregivers, consuming more than 50% of their day.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Earlier this week, I backed a photobook project on Kickstarter to document many of the artists who live there. The Gotham Gal and I have lived a block away from Westbeth for almost fifteen years. Westbeth is a treasure. It was Bell Labs for most of the first half of the twentieth century and became an artist community in 1970 about twenty years after Bell Labs left for New Jersey. That project was funded and is over now.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 11, 2020
We decided to leverage the assets that we had at our disposal, take a break from trying to sell to people and create a document of all the things we really wanted the people around us to see. This document was written during the first week of the 21-day lockdown in South Africa.
StartupNation
MARCH 17, 2021
This document should also highlight any major accomplishments or awards. Use these documents to provide a clear and easy-to-understand description of what your product or service is, how it works, pricing, and the unique value proposition that makes you stand out from the competition.
Paul G. Silva
JUNE 30, 2020
First-time entrepreneurs asked to document their hypotheses about Pains and Benefits often experience “blank canvas” paralysis , the inability to get started because of a lack of a clear starting point. Your company’s value proposition must provide benefits that perfectly match your customers’ pains.
Y Combinator
AUGUST 6, 2020
From fundraising document templates , to tips on how to pitch , to strategies for navigating COVID — we hope that our library offers something useful to every founder. We’re excited to announce the launch of the YC Startup Library, found at ycombinator.com/library.
Paul G. Silva
APRIL 7, 2020
Step 1: Get MAD – Remember your M ission, assess your A ssets, document the D emand. D: Document the Demand – List out any loud signals the market or your customers have given you of things they want.
The Seraf Compass
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Active angels work with term sheets regularly, but not every investor fully understands the sometimes arcane language in these highly-specialized documents.
Tomasz Tunguz
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Engineers prefer to spend time in Github evaluating a product’s technical prowess, in the documentation to learn how to wield the technology, and in the forums understanding the nature of the community. Technical acumen, applied content marketing, and superlative documentation build that trust. The side door leads to documentation, blog posts, community brought via referral. Side-door is documentation. Many companies today pursue a pincer GTM.
Dream It
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On a case-by-case basis, investors are willing to remove blocking language from company documents, lower their ownership percentage so they’re not in a blocking position, and aggregate their ownership across funds to a single fund manager.
Dream It
JULY 29, 2020
TrekIT’s unique, clinician-designed platform improves provider wellbeing, helps teams find critical data they need, when they need it, while also increasing revenue for the health system by optimizing documentation workflows.”
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So to be clear, if a company owns 8% of your company but has negative blocking rights as outlined above in the NVCA guidelines, you are ineligible for the program unless you modify your legal governing documents.
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From using voice analysis to identify behavioral health issues to streamlining physician documentation of patient interactions, startups have incorporated voice technology to improve the value and efficiency of care. Using Voice Tech to Improve Physician Documentation and Note-Taking Physician burnout has increased at a rapid rate over the past few years. Physicians spend hours each week documenting their patient interactions in the EHR. Voice tech is on the rise.
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When you do so, you’ll notice the milestone’s color will darken and your SSRL score (in the upper left corner of the document) will increase.
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And I also like the idea of documenting this pandemic in photos so we can remember it when its in the rear view mirror. I backed a bunch of projects this morning on Kickstarter and this one really stuck with me. I like supporting young creators who are putting their work out there and seeking funding for it. USV TEAM POSTS: crowdfunding
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