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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. MORE
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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
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
If you’ve ever had to take out a loan, you know just how many documents are involved in the approval process. Ocrolus is a startup that is hoping to change that with an automation platform that it says analyzes financial documents with over 99% accuracy. 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
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
Templafy , a Denmark-born B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation, has raised a $60 million D round of funding led by Blue Cloud Ventures. 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
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
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
Faced with American giants with large scopes and complex products, we have built a solution that is accessible and easy to use, allowing SMBs to sign their first documents within the hour, and not a month” Yousign co-founder and CEO Luc Pallavidino said in a statement. 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
These documents are used by Y Combinator, angel investors and most early-stage funds. You should raise on post-money SAFEs using standard documents created by YC. Standard documents have consistent terms that have been drafted to be fair to both investors and founders. Yin Wu. 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
The medical industry is sitting on a huge trove of data, but in many cases it can be a challenge to realize the value of it because that data is unstructured and in disparate places. MORE
Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 The seed round will be used for accelerating product development and the global launch of an open beta for its AI-powered document management platform. 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
You also need to know who are the executors, trustees, and beneficiaries of all your parents’ legal documents. Documents such as wills, trusts, automobile titles, property deeds, insurance policies, tax returns, Powers of Attorney, healthcare directives (eg, DNR) . 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
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
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
Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. Skiff is a document editor with a similar look and feel to Google Docs, allowing you to write, edit and collaborate in real-time with colleagues with privacy baked in. 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
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
At launch, they’re focused on providing legal documents for life coaches and business coaches and will be expanding to other industries soon. 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
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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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Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 The seed round will be used for accelerating product development and the global launch of an open beta for its AI-powered document management platform.
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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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If you’ve ever had to take out a loan, you know just how many documents are involved in the approval process. Ocrolus is a startup that is hoping to change that with an automation platform that it says analyzes financial documents with over 99% accuracy.
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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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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.
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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.
StartupNation
MAY 8, 2021
At launch, they’re focused on providing legal documents for life coaches and business coaches and will be expanding to other industries soon.
Berkonomics
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.
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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.
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JUNE 16, 2021
Templafy , a Denmark-born B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation, has raised a $60 million D round of funding led by Blue Cloud Ventures.
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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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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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JUNE 7, 2021
The medical industry is sitting on a huge trove of data, but in many cases it can be a challenge to realize the value of it because that data is unstructured and in disparate places.
Berkonomics
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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.
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.
Paul G. Silva
JUNE 3, 2021
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 ].
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
AUGUST 25, 2021
You also need to know who are the executors, trustees, and beneficiaries of all your parents’ legal documents. Documents such as wills, trusts, automobile titles, property deeds, insurance policies, tax returns, Powers of Attorney, healthcare directives (eg, DNR) .
TechCrunch
MAY 26, 2021
Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. Skiff is a document editor with a similar look and feel to Google Docs, allowing you to write, edit and collaborate in real-time with colleagues with privacy baked in.
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.
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
JUNE 10, 2021
Faced with American giants with large scopes and complex products, we have built a solution that is accessible and easy to use, allowing SMBs to sign their first documents within the hour, and not a month” Yousign co-founder and CEO Luc Pallavidino said in a statement.
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.
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.
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.
The Seraf Compass
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Active angels work with term sheets regularly, but not every investor fully understands the sometimes arcane language in these highly-specialized documents.
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.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 28, 2020
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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These documents are used by Y Combinator, angel investors and most early-stage funds. You should raise on post-money SAFEs using standard documents created by YC. Standard documents have consistent terms that have been drafted to be fair to both investors and founders. Yin Wu.
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