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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

Revolution

One is “tentpole company,” or a category-defining startup that helps put their hometown on the map, both for investors and future generations of founders. Internally, we’ve begun using the term “founder-market-geography fit” to describe this idea. What is Founder-Market-Geography Fit? Let’s get into it.

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Grouparoo snares $3M seed to build open source customer data integration framework

TechCrunch

Today, Grouparoo , a new startup from three industry vets is the next company up with an open source framework designed to make it easier for developers to access and make use of customer data. TaskRabbit also comes into play in their investment where Fuel GP Leah Solivan was also founder of TaskRabbit. Twilio’s $3.2B

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Lok Yek Soon, Founder of Awesome Ventures: Empowering Impactful Startups for Lasting Change  

AsiaTechDaily

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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Startup productivity in the age of AI: automate, deprecate, delegate (A.D.D.)

Jason Calacanis

Over the past decade, I invested in over 350 startups and watched up close as founders figured out how to do more with less. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. framework might seem obvious as you read it, it's easy to forget (like many simple things). framework: a. While this A.D.D. and E.O.W.:

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Investing in Tigris

Andreessen Horowitz

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.

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Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups

TechCrunch

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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Sequoia provides founders with key insights on launching, building and fundraising

TechCrunch

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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