TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 Pydantic Services Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

private market investors who adopted environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) frameworks — the very few thus far — did so to evaluate a potential company or investment on how it approached areas like sustainability or diversity. Traditionally, U.S.

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The Seraf Compass

MARCH 22, 2023

If you’re invested in a growing company that does not yet have a customer council, you may want to encourage the founders to create one. Here is how to operate one and some important traps for the unwary that you can use as a framework when you talk to your CEOs about the concept.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Fundraising is challenging, especially for deep tech founders who need to get investors excited about a complex technology, a complex sales cycle and a complex risk profile. As a former investor and current angel investor, I have met thousands of founders, many in the deep tech space. Try to reach hearts and minds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sequoia hosted a private, sponsored AMA for founders in Startup Battlefield and Startup Alley at the virtual Disrupt SF last month. You’ve sat on both the founder side and investor side, what is one thing you wish you could have told your founder self ? What are things a founder can do to prepare for when the stars align?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

ROI is often both qualitative and quantitative in nature, so it’s important to define the framework for your offering and weight KPIs differently based on prospective customer nuances instead of creating bespoke ROI frameworks that are impossible to keep track of. Clearly define success across measurable metrics.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this week’s edition, we discuss: Why the top 1% of founders quit their startup Why cracking the trust code is the key to growth Why the top 1% of founders quit their startup “If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. The strategy to quit is hardly ever talked about, and it’s tough for founders to make these decisions.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The Coveteur article featuring Andy and Bonobos encapsulated exactly how a founder worth writing about will act: ".He Telling your story isn't just about conveying information about your company--it's about giving someone a framework that makes them feel like they know how to be successful as well. Otherwise, who cares?

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Now, Lok is bringing his expertise and passion to the forefront with Awesome Ventures, aiming to provide invaluable support and resources to startup founders during the critical early stages of their companies. We have guidelines within our investment framework. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The current tax framework on capital gains tax (zero if you hold the shares for more than two years) and a new ‘digital nomad’ visa are helping to attract investors and talent to the city, which is also close to some of the best beaches in the world. Vedran Tolic , founder & CBO, Q agency. Matej Zelic , COO, Spotsie.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Maya Moufarek, founder of Marketing Cube , spent more than 15 years working for companies like Google and American Express before launching her own growth consultancy. I find Clayton Christensen’s jobs to be done (JTBD) framework very powerful because it’s relevant to the product, marketing and strategy teams. What value do they add?

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Jason Calacanis

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Over the past decade, I invested in over 350 startups and watched up close as founders figured out how to do more with less. framework might seem obvious as you read it, it's easy to forget (like many simple things). framework, confidently, and understanding there will ALWAYS be higher-level work. framework: a.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 13, 2022

We’ve advised many of our later stage growth companies through market ups and downs, and we’ve realized that, when the market dips, founders. The post A Framework for Navigating Down Markets appeared first on Future.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Use a podcast readiness framework Think you’re ready to launch a branded podcast? My company offers this framework that includes core questions to ask during your process to help ensure that you’re being intentional. The secret winning ingredient for branded show creation is intention. Happy podcasting!

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

14 Methods for Ensuring Accountability Within Startup Teams Accountability is a cornerstone of startup success, and we’ve gathered insights from CEOs and Founders to learn how they maintain it within their teams. To help achieve this, the ‘OKR’ (Objectives and Key Results) framework can serve as an effective technique.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Late last month, Artifact , a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. It’s an ecosystem where publishers are failing left and right and misinformation is rampant, as the founders surely saw themselves while working at Facebook.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

CEO and co-founder Aaron Polhamus said he, Miguel Arroyo and Jaime Rodas were driven to start Mexico City-based Vest in December 2020 because of their belief that while Latin Americans work hard for their savings, “historically their savings have not worked hard for them.”. Financial services for investing and cash management in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

What is a founder to do? Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. On market segmentation I often recite my “ Elephants, Deer & Rabbits ” framework. Each is a framework for thinking about a problem. For example: 1.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

The company raised a $55 million Series A round from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto investment arm last November, less than three months after bagging $16 million in seed funding led by Founders Fund and Paradigm. NFTs sold on Royal represent two things, Blau said. Everyone’s music collection is theoretically the same, right?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has announced that he is stepping back from his full-time role at the company. He’ll remain on the Board of Directors as co-chair with Factual founder Gil Elbaz. Crowley has been an iconic startup founder during the Web 2.0 In 2016, Crowley moved to an executive chairman position.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

If you’re a company’s founder in an early market, you know how hard it can be to cross the chasm between early adopters and mainstream customers. Early markets are by no means easy to tackle, so in this post, I’ll discuss seven tips that will help founders navigate these difficult waters.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

But the alien metaphor serves as a neat acronym for the five dimensions of our ALIEN thinking framework: A for Attention. Current innovation frameworks–think lean startup or design sprint–emphasize speed and action over reflection and strategic breaks. L for Levitation (meaning reflection). I for Imagination.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 17, 2012

That means that founders as a group will be right around 50% ownership after two rounds. Generally, each round is going to set you back between 15-30%. That means investors are going to buy that much of your company at a time. It's a function of a few things.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The benefits of these new platforms can be functional — Fly.io, for example, has far simpler multi-region support than AWS — but they also get adopted because they have better native support for modern applications frameworks and practices, and a far better developer experience. And so here we are, with that vision having been realized.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 15, 2024

Drawing from the experiences of CEOs, Co-Founders, and other leaders, we’ve compiled fourteen diverse perspectives. Chad Bellin , Co-Founder, Disca Leverage Startup Culture’s Flexibility Startup culture, often hyped for its dynamism and innovation, can be a double-edged sword.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer , an open video infrastructure for livestreaming. But for founders looking to foray into the world of decentralization, it’s all too easy to become distracted from core business objectives by shiny new buzzwords emanating from the space. Doug Petkanics. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Under an advice framework, my Forum-mates take turns telling me what I should do in my specific situation. However, with an experience sharing framework, everyone in the group will instead share a personal story related to my presentation. In my experience. It can often create a better outcome for everyone.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

We then construct a framework as part of our growth program that also allows room for certain beliefs a company has. Founders often have an amazing idea and vision of how things will play out. Focusing on growth levers makes our work more actionable. What do startups continue to get wrong? Enough to be able to foresee the future?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Don’t play at entrepreneurship Image by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels I recently began mentoring other founders after three profitable years for my own SaaS startup. Then one day the company website disappeared and any emails I sent to the founder bounced. We followed the 5 Cs of credit framework by default for all of our customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The open-source Starling Framework for Data Integrity was launched to protect the veracity of online content using blockchain technology, creating “birth certificates” for photos and videos and tracking any changes made to them. The Starling Framework’s other collaborators include Filechain, Hala Systems and Protocol Labs).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We have the knowledge, frameworks, and techniques to build successful products. Why do many founders do the opposite ? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Not a scientific sampling, but I noticed that several investors signaled this week on Twitter that they remain interested in talking to founders who are still at the idea stage. The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

“To stand out in this crowded space, founders should focus on highlighting unique technology and a clear advantage for a specific use case, as well as a defensible moat,” Alex Marinier, founder and general partner at New Form Capital said. We surveyed: Michael Anderson , co-founder, Framework Ventures.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

We’ve just released our free Co-founder Equity Split tool. It’ll give you a fair and objective recommendation about how to divide your startup’s ownership, so you and your co-founders will have a sensible, real starting point for this notoriously hard, crucially important conversation. Read more >.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6% of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Chris Dixon is the founder and managing partner of a16z crypto and author of the new book Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet. Robert Hackett is an editor at a16z crypto who worked closely with him on the book as an editing and thought partner.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 11, 2022

I’ve deconstructed a framework for the cold outreach to strangers, which was more beneficial than any other marketing tactics and created opportunities for myself that never would have occurred. As a founder, if you’re looking for traction, know the problem they can encounter and explain how your solution can resolve the problem.

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