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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Reading it felt like read a university book for an economics class and no wonder since he’s a professor at Harvard Business School.

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Eight accounting tips every Kiwi startup needs to know

NZ Entrepreneur

While spreadsheets might seem sufficient in the early days, investing in a proper accounting system from the start can save you countless headaches down the line. A separate business bank account draws a clear distinction between your personal and business finances.

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Everything I didn’t learn about startups as a VC (…or why VCs don’t make good entrepreneurs)

This is going to be BIG.

Many entrepreneurs turned VCs wind up going back, but to start out on the investment side and then successfully launch a company seems to happen much less frequently. We ask about product roadmap, but we really should be asking about the process and decision making framework that you’re using to figure out that roadmap as you go along.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

But how can biotech teams effectively communicate to investors and partners how they will, with each round of financing, incrementally reduce the risks of discovering and developing successful new drugs? How is the company’s go-forward budget split across platform investments and program-specific spend?

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software. I installed Windows 3.1

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Singapore-based open finance startup Finantier gets backing from Y Combinator

TechCrunch

Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent. Open finance grew out of open banking, the same framework that Plaid and Tink are built on.

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Investing in Valar Labs

Andreessen Horowitz

And we are thrilled to announce today that we have co-led Valar’s Seed and Series A financings, alongside partners at Pear VC and DCVC. AI in healthcare: bicycles for expert minds Where will AI impact healthcare first? Can startups build bicycles for healthcare minds? Which bicycles are worth building?

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