Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 23, 2023
As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry.
TechCrunch
JUNE 22, 2022
As incumbent banks embraced startups, investors leaned into novel ways to reduce friction and improve accuracy, increasing annual mortgage origination by nearly 40% compared to the last decade. There’s immense opportunity for similar gains in healthcare, but long-term success requires healthcare incumbents to truly commit to automation.
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Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.
Andreessen Horowitz
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The best known framework for R&D spend for companies that have found product-market fit is the 70–20–10 rule, where 70% of spend goes toward investment in the core product, 20% toward new product feature development or smaller products in their nascency, and 10% toward more speculative new products (sometimes called moonshots).
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 22, 2024
At the growth stages in particular, founders need to be mindful of their unit economics and margins. We often hear these founders ask: how can I capture the value created by genAI? We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks.
Revolution
MARCH 23, 2022
which is why we assembled a panel of founders paving the way for a more proactive future in their industries. Startups are a Sustainability Accelerant: Unlike industry incumbents with slower, more outdated frameworks, startups often build with sustainability at the forefront of their business?—?even
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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