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How Generative AI is Going to Change Your Life and Mess Everything Up in the Process

This is going to be BIG.

These are the first marketing images of an upcoming movie that I star in with my daughter Mirren about an aging superhero that is absolutely too old for this s**t that winds up having to save some mystical star child. Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. Enthusiasts will tell you that this is the beginning of being able to insert yourself into video games, recreate scenes of things that happen to you in the pa

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3 Ways to Improve Engagement in Front-Line Employees

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Employee burnout figures are on the rise, a fact that no company should ignore. According to Gallup research from 2021, nearly three-quarters of all employees report sometimes feeling burned out. And that’s not good for them or their organizations. Yet burnout isn’t inevitable, including among frontline employees. Frontline workers tend to be especially susceptible to burnout.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education told us that ChatGPT has effectively ended the essay as a way for teachers to assess student progress. It will be easier for a student to prompt ChatGPT to write the essay than to write it themselves.

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First Round Draft Picks: Helping CEOs Build Great Teams

The Seraf Compass

Superstar, cult-like CEOs make for great press. How many times have you read an article about Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg that makes it sound like their companies’ success rested entirely on their shoulders? It makes for a compelling human story, but these are myths. That is not how the world works. Without a great supporting team, these CEOs could never deliver on their promised vision.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Copycats can drown  

TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. To end the year, let’s continue to return to columns that I wrote that have aged, well, interestingly. In July, I wrote about how Y Combinator is building a Product Hunt, Product Hunt is building an Andreessen Horowitz and Andreessen Horowitz is building a Y Combinator.

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The Hour Of Code

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC. It is the highlight of the annual Computer Science Education Week which is the first week of December, which is this week. Yesterday Marco Argenti, Goldman Sachs’ CIO, and I went with NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks to the Hospitality Management High School in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan to do an Hour of Code with the students there.

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A Place-Based Gift Guide for the Startup Enthusiast

Revolution

2022 brought new connections and perspectives as we met with entrepreneurs, portfolio companies, and ecosystem builders on the ground in startup communities across the country. [link] Our travels and our portfolio inevitably inspire our gift-giving strategy every year. So this holiday season, we’ve compiled a cross-country guide of Revolution-backed brands to shop and share with your friends and family this winter.

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PLG & Profitability : More Product Doesn't Necessarily Mean Greater Profits

Tomasz Tunguz

Profitability or net income margin has become the most important correlate to public software company valuations. But public companies are less profitable today than a year ago. Surprisingly, PLG companies’ profitability has suffered more than sales-led businesses. Across every quartile, public software & infrastructure companies have seen a 5 percentage point drop in net income since Covid.

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Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners

TechCrunch

When Ankur Nagpal sold Teachable for a quarter of a billion dollars , he felt lucky. Then, he quickly felt lost when trying to navigate the financial systems of a country he wasn’t born in and learn the institutional language often only spoken fluently by the historically wealthy. It would be a few years of self-employment, and building a venture firm later, before Nagpal returned to the moment as one of the early catalysts for his newest startup, Ocho.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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YC Generative AI Co-Founder Meetup

Y Combinator

Attention aspiring entrepreneurs! Are you passionate about using generative AI to create innovative products and services? Do you have a great idea that you're looking to bring to life, but you're still missing the perfect co-founder to make it happen? YC is excited to announce our first-ever generative AI themed co-founder meetup, happening virtually on Saturday, December 17th at 11am-1pm PST.

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The Mechanics of Converting Convertible Notes

Gust

Convertible notes are a great tool for venture financing. They are primarily used for early-stage financings, but they are also a good solution for a bridge round when a company isn’t quite ready for the next equity financing round. The actual mechanics of converting convertible notes (in other words – calculating conversion shares) is not a simple task and requires great care.

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How to Perfect Your Market Research For Your Pitch Deck or Business Plan

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If you believe your TAM is 500 million when it’s actually 50 thousand, then you’re looking in the wrong places. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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The climate founders’ guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

TechCrunch

David Rusenko. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Rusenko is a full-time climate tech investor. He was previously the founder and CEO of Weebly, which sold to Square in 2018. Leeor Mushin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Leeor Mushin is a principal at Floodgate Fund, where he focuses on application SaaS, climate and healthcare. He also is the co-founder of the GSB 20|20 Fund and a digital marketing company.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Meetings insight: Just three actionable items!

Berkonomics

How do you get your team to focus and move forward effectively? . A fellow CEO recently told me of her method of assuring positive movement within her team. She holds a weekly meeting of her direct reports and asks them to find three important but actionable items for the group to work on if not complete during the following week. This works for live meetings or those using video team meetings.

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Interview: Tim Crown, Blackpearl Group and Insight Enterprises

NZ Entrepreneur

Richard Liew talks to Tim Crown, Chair at Blackpearl Group (NZX: BPG) and Chair and Cofounder at NASDAQ listed Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT) about Blackpearl’s recent listing on the NZX, and Insight Enterprises journey from a $USD2000 startup to $USD10B in annual revenues. Wellington born technology company Blackpearl Group listed on the NZX Main Board under the ticker BPG on Friday 2 December.

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Weekly 25: What trillion-dollar companies can teach your startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Welcome to another edition of our newsletter! You’ll receive practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss What startups can learn from trillion-dollar companies. The key pillars to starting a business. Let’s do this. Building a 15-person or a 1.5 million-person company? Read this Amazon grew from 1 to 1.5 million employees.

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Zeraki, a Kenyan edtech providing digital solutions for school admin, raises $1.8M

TechCrunch

Zeraki , a Kenyan edtech that has built digital learning and school data analytics platforms, has raised $1.8 million seed funding in a round led by Acumen Fund, for product catalog growth and regional expansion. Save the Children Impact Investment Fund, Verdant Frontiers Fintech and Logos Ventures participated in the round, as did the Nairobi Business Angels Network (NaiBAN), and Melvyn Lubega, co-founder of Go1, an Australia-based edtech unicorn.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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Investing in Setpoint

Andreessen Horowitz

Behind many of life’s most important financial transactions — be it buying a house, applying for a mortgage, getting a small business loan, or refinancing a personal credit card — exist a network of trust and credit relationships. Billions of … The post Investing in Setpoint appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Seedstars launches investment platform for emerging VC managers with help from xMultiplied

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register In partnership with Swiss-based investment holding company xMultiplied, Seedstars recently launched Seedstars Capital, an investment platform for emerging venture capital (VC) fund managers. Seedstars, in a statement, said that the platform partners with “emerging and diverse managers with local expertise and unique strategies and provides the necessary resources to launch new fund

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The Only Blueprint You’ll Ever Need to Monetize Your Unique Interests (Online)

Entrepreneur's Handbook

In just 10 simple steps, everyone has the ability to make at least $100 a day Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Which way is up? The end of free money and the importance of keeping cash on hand

TechCrunch

Max Schireson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Max Schireson is an operating partner at investment firm Battery Ventures. He was previously the CEO of database company MongoDB. More posts by this contributor. For better or for worse: Managing founder-CEO tension inside a startup. Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. It’s always hard to run a startup, but at least in 2021, you knew what you were supposed to do: Grow fast.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Coworking Megatrends 2023

GCUC

Coworking Megatrends 2023 First and foremost, go back and read what I wrote last year because, quite frankly, it’s dead on. Give it a skim and come. Read More.

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AI Beauty tech solution company Chowis’ “mySkin F.A.I.N” named in CES 2023 Innovation Awards

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Chowis Company, a Skin and Hair & Scalp Diagnosis System Korean Company, has been named in the “ CES 2023 Innovation Award” for its AI full face diagnosis solution, “MySkin F.A.I.N.” Chowis’ mySkin F.A.I.N won in the “Digital Health” category as an AI full-face skin diagnosis solution that analyzes skin using AI algorithm technology.

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Jeff Bezos Net Worth: How He Makes Billions (Not ALL From Amazon)

OkDork

Jeff Bezos’ net worth is around $114 billion dollars right now , which isn’t the highest net worth he’s ever had. In previous years, Jeff Bezos has had a net worth of $150 billion , or even $200 billion! But since a lot of his net worth is tied up in his companies, it rises and falls with market fluctuations. With hundreds of billions of dollars to his name, you might think that Jeff is the richest person in the world right now—right?

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Vaultree raises $12.8M to let companies more easily work with encrypted data

TechCrunch

Several years ago, on a dairy farm in the small Irish village of Dundrum, four technologists — Maxim Dressler, Ryan Lasmaili, Shaun Mc Brearty and Tilo Weigandt — brainstormed solutions for what they saw as a fundamental problem in data security: unencrypted text files. According to a 2016 survey commissioned by CyberArk, 40% of organizations store admin passwords in a Word document.

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association 

PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.