Sun.Mar 19, 2023

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Emerging managers hope the new SVB offers the same support to new VCs

TechCrunch

Before it crashed, Silicon Valley Bank was known to many startups and venture firms as the place to park their money or take out a capital line. But for emerging managers, it was a lot more than just a financial institution. Multiple emerging managers told TechCrunch+ that SVB was instrumental in helping them build their firms from the ground up. It also provided support to help them build networks and feel included in the venture ecosystem despite their size.

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How to get a digital nomad visa for spain in 2023 and the best cities to be a digital nomad

Founder Bounty

Spain does not currently offer a specific digital nomad visa, but there are several types of visas and residence permits that may be suitable for those who wish to work remotely while living in Spain. Here are some of the options available: Non-Lucrative Residence Visa: This type of visa is designed for those who do not intend to work in Spain, but who have sufficient financial resources to support themselves.

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The Unbundling of Twitter

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I posted what was basically the same message on Twitter and LinkedIn, around the same time, edited for Twitter size limitations. LinkedIn: Twitter: I have over 44,000 Twitter followers, yet just under 8,000 LinkedIn followers. My LinkedIn Post did 4x the reposts, 10x the comments (and that was after I realized that comments aren't open by default, so it would have been more), and 13x the likes.

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10 tips for de-risking hardware products

TechCrunch

Manufacturing real-life, tangible objects that you can touch is often a lot riskier than developing software. Once you’ve created 10,000 thingamajigs, it’s far harder to make changes to them than in the software world, where you can push an update if you want to tweak something. In the world of manufacturing, then, the question is: How can I make sure that I’m building the right thing for the right audience?

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How to Build Your Startup like Google & Stripe

Tomasz Tunguz

In late 2021, Office Hours welcomed Claire Hughes-Johnson, former Stripe COO & VP at Google. During that session, she alluded to a book sharing her expertise in building exceptional teams at two of the most successful startups. That book, Scaling People : Tactics for Management & Company Building. is a book a management team could take to an offsite to develop or re-imagine the entire operating system of a business.

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Which Increases Productivity More : The Advent of Personal Computer or a Large-Language Model?

Tomasz Tunguz

“Our analysis indicates that approximately 19% of jobs have at least 50% of their tasks exposed to GPTs when considering both current model capabilities and anticipated GPT-powered software.” That’s the conclusion from OpenAI’s recent paper “ GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models.