Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The biotech industry is built on one of the cleanest go-to-market strategies in existence: if you make a safe drug that really works, patients are likely to receive it and payors are likely to pay for it. How much of the total financing is allocated towards the lead program? These are all common questions you’ll hear from biotech investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 10, 2024

Create a single document outlining your brand in vivid detail, then design training to educate all new hires, and implement performance metrics based on brand values. The Brand document is foundational to your decision-making process. When you make strategic decisions, is it easy to determine what is on-brand — and what is off-brand?

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 11, 2023

8 Effective Strategies for Managing Cash Flow in Early-Stage Startups To help startups navigate the tricky waters of cash flow management, we’ve gathered eight insightful strategies from CEOs, Founders, and other business leaders. This can be achieved by operating with minimal staff or delaying certain non-essential investments.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 11, 2020

I went from having a solid strategy, a decent pipeline and a great team to execute on it to being forced to stay in my house with my wife and son, my team working remotely (with our new shiny office sitting empty), and every project we were working on being cancelled or postponed.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2021

With these five strategies, your pathway to exit can be smooth and rewarding. Your content blog may need a new SEO strategy to raise your monthly traffic. Prepare Your Business’s Documentation. Before placing your business for sale, it’s important to ensure that you have all the necessary documentation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Start by documenting everything. The more employees that came on, the more I needed to have everything documented. Tip #3: Crafting a Clear Exit Strategy Just as you planned when you started your business, you need a detailed blueprint when you decide to step away. That blueprint is your exit strategy. Tough, right?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2022

All you have to do is repurpose that content into videos that work well within your existing marketing strategy; no brain-racking required. You can even turn customer support documents (product use instructions, FAQ pages) into video slideshows. The method you choose depends on your marketing strategy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. Learning new tools takes time.

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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. Health Tensor’s AI copilot automates COVID-19 documentation as more patients enter hospitals and put a strain on systems. Contact Founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

The intention is also to create asset protection strategies so creditors, predators or ex-family members, cannot access the monies that your mom and dad worked so hard to accumulate. You also need to know who are the executors, trustees, and beneficiaries of all your parents’ legal documents.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO. Much of my time is spent setting the vision and strategy for Faire and driving the execution of that strategy. Communicating the strategy to the entire company requires multiple channels and repetition.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Overview Forward Cities seeks to enter a non-exclusive, project-based agreement with one or more suitable contractors to manage the storytelling, documentation, and communications for the BWSF work. We are deepening our support of work that emerged in the Durham and Raleigh communities in hopes of sustaining their efforts and momentum.

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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. One of the most common requests we get from Startup School participants is that we provide more content than what is currently in the curriculum.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Dropbox today announced that it’s acquired FormSwift , a cloud-based platform designed to help businesses build, edit, approve, share and print custom personalized documents. A screenshot showing FormSwift’s interface. Image Credits: FormSwift.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is the third of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. After the company signs the term sheet, the lender will begin legal documentation and work with their counsel on clearing conflicts to get a full loan agreement drafted. This usually takes about a week.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by TechCrunch. ” The Information reported in early March that Anthropic was seeking to raise $300 million at $4.1

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. You have seed rounds but you now have “pre-seed rounds.”

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

From fostering a culture of trust to assigning clear task ownership, explore the diverse strategies and tools in these fourteen responses that can help ensure your team stays on track. By understanding human motivation and implementing effective strategies, leaders can foster a culture of ownership, responsibility, and collective achievement.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 4, 2022

With so much happening, it can be tough to document every single aha moment, but here are my top ten from GLC 2022: 1. The ‘super’ in “supermodel” comes not from luck and good genes, but rather from a deliberate business strategy. How to create a metaverse strategy for your business. How to improve your memory.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Space Industry,” warns that foreign intelligence entities (FIEs) could use a range of strategies — including capital allocations — to exploit American space companies. Investments, joint ventures or acquisitions could be vehicles for foreign adversaries to gain a foothold in the U.S. The new guidance, “Safeguarding the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Computers allowed lawyers to produce, store, and edit legal documents more easily. AI can be used in discovery to expedite the process of sifting through data files, and often to find documents a human may have missed. By Brian Hall, a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization in Austin, Texas. Robot lawyers.

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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. What kinds of problems does the business solve?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This next-level alignment empowered Karen with the capability to run the company according to the priorities and strategies we discussed in-depth each week for the previous year. Documentation. Now that our systems and processes are refined and firmly in place, we’re documenting them in a written playbook.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

” The startup launched its sale strategy last year and now has seven clients and 32 partners, which are part of an open industrial robotic program that it launched last June. They can even [handle] maintenance by themselves. Our approach is to maximize product transparency and make collaboration much easier.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. VCs like to measure your strategy & progress over time I like to download the decks I receive.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Let’s dive deep into the often-overlooked strategies that can truly amplify your profit margins. Each strategy on its own might not seem like it will move the needle, but when you add them all up, you substantially impact your bottom line. Document Everything This can’t be stressed enough. I’ve seen this first-hand.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

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. Removing problematic covenants can be accomplished as an amendment to company documents.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success. Create a business plan Before approaching investors, you need to have a well-thought-out business plan.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A company’s product or service can be phenomenal, but if the enterprise content — marketing, messaging, customer service communications, product documentation or even brand voice and style — is poorly written or unfocused, you’ll have a difficult time attracting and retaining customers. Content is the core of customer experience.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

Customer account documents, databases, financial statements, years of tax documents, personnel records, presentations, inventory/sales, the list goes on and on. Worrying about losing data isn’t something you have to lose sleep over if you have an active data backup strategy. Three Backup Strategies.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 11, 2024

Explore these thirteen expert strategies to enhance the accuracy and utility of your startup’s financial reports. This prompted us to shift marketing strategies, leading to a 25% increase in conversions within a quarter.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Companies like the New York Times are willing to litigate this issue (at least as a negotiation strategy). Responsibility : Documented Trust and Safety protocols to allow for escalation around violations of your Terms of Service. These business deals are a substitute for unclear copyright and usage laws.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Would you recommend this strategy to founders? This strategy worked for two reasons: 1) By the end of the contract, the contractors had poured weeks of energy into the work – learning the code base and investing their time – and getting to know potential coworkers. Tell me about this process.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate. Intellectual Property - For a discounted flat fee, Fox’s skilled IP attorneys will review and recommend a strategy to protect your IP, file for trademark protection or perform other services.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Its technology creates tutorials by recording a users’ workflow — actions, links to pages, URLs and screenshots — and turns that into step-by-step documentation with a video. The team now has 13 employees. The big thing is around integrations and meeting people where the consumer content is,” Babcock added. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When we interviewed him last July , Hughes explained that he would refer leads to EveryDeveloper when they needed to sort out their content strategy. Every developer (the origin of our name) has a few basic needs, like clear documentation, help getting started and use cases to spark creativity. The main takeaway?

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