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FundersClub Portfolio News. Flexport plans to open a 100,000-square-foot warehouse in Atlanta and is scouting for about 25,000 square feet of office space in Midtown, which will add more than 200 jobs in " Freight industry disruptor Flexport plans $100 million Atlanta hub. MORE
Governments lay out the framework in which society moves — they also have the mandate to create a viable, sustainable, and positive future for its people and environment. WWF and Impact Hub join forces for the oceans. MORE
Since then, I’ve tried to keep up-to-date with the myriad coding innovations: new databases (Hadoop, Mongo, Spark, TAO), new web frameworks (Node, Angular, Meteor) and new languages (Go, Clojure). MORE
This framework has helped me many times simplify strategic questions and shift from questioning to analysis to action. By using an analysis framework like the one above, you can bring clarity and a common language with your board for evaluating and making the right strategic choices Any number of challenges can arise during a startup’s initial years. Some of these changes could be major and may require rethinking strategy. Competitors enter your target market. MORE
In Resonate, Nancy explains the three different key components of memorable, effective pitches: the journey the speaker would like the audience to traverse, the framework for creating a good story, and the mechanism to bring the two together. Last, Duarte combines synthesizes the output of these two frameworks into a spark line, like the one above for the iPhone announcement by Steve Jobs. I remember many the great TED talks I’ve watched. MORE
FundersClub Portfolio News. Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and RSVP for the event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. MORE
At a board meeting last week, one of the VPs of Marketing I’m lucky to work with presented a brilliantly simple way of explaining the evolution of a startup’s marketing tactics. I’ve drawn a diagram of the idea above, which borrows heavily from McKinsey’s 3 horizons. Startups have many different marketing options at their disposal: SEO/SEM, print, radio, TV, mail, affiliate, content marketing…The list goes on and on. MORE
I try to keep this framework front and center in my brain as we meet with founders and work to find transactions that work for everyone. I remember when my son came home one day in high school and told me he wanted to “day trade” along with some friends who were doing it. We opened a TD Ameritrade account and staked him with a small amount of money, enough to trade but not enough that if he lost it all it would be an issue. And off he went. MORE
It plummeted because new infrastructure was created: a combination of open source software, modern web frameworks, SaaS developer tools, cloud hosting, and better distribution channels. Back when YC was getting started about 10 years ago, Paul Graham wrote some essays that predicted the way startup fundraising would change in the next decade – accurately, it turns out. MORE
The reason for this is simple, Carella explains: For limited supply skills, most people will be already earning at the top of their profession—a circumstance that would certainly include developers on popular frameworks and those familiar with edge technologies in AI, data and cloud systems. MORE
Vidit Aatrey is cofounder and CEO of Meesho. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com. Adora Cheung is a Partner at YC. Before working at YC she cofounded Homejoy. You can find Vidit on Twitter @viditaatrey and Adora is @nolimits. Topics. 00:00 – Intro. 00:45 – What is Meesho? 2:45 – Why not just sell directly to consumers? MORE
But customers wanted the better product with the same pricing framework as the rest of the industry. Startups are innovation machines. They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. MORE
As for Antithesis’ objective to structure a framework of metrics and KPIs for Seed/Series A pitches, Jason and his team members recognize the importance of collecting and presenting data investors care about. MORE
Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling MORE
Although we spend lots of time talking about numbers, metrics and frameworks, there’s an artistic component to entrepreneurship that’s really important. Introduction: ? MORE
Dave learned a framework called OGSM (Objectives / Goals / Strategies / Measures) after his company Bzzagent was acquired by market research firm dunnhumby. The OGSM framework can be use to manage change at each of these levels. Simple framework : the top 5 list. MORE
Sometimes a Value framework might lead a VC to a company that is “hot” and running a Momentum round. As a venture capitalist, should you be a Momentum or a Value investor? To simplify, there are two classic approaches to public markets investing. The first is Momentum Investing , “a strategy to capitalize on the continuance of an existing market trend”, which usually meaning that the price has been rising in the recent past. MORE
The Risk and Work Premiums – combined with knowledge about market norms – are helpful frameworks for founders to use when evaluating whether or not to actually take the offer in front of them. Recently, while discussing a preemptive funding offer with a company, we noticed that the offer was more dilutive than expected. MORE
Rather, this is a framework for thinking through what needs to be done. We all know that startups should make decisions quickly. MORE
After a startup attains product market fit and begins to exceed the first breaking point of the startup management structure around 10 employees, it’s time to codify the company’s values. The values of the company are the most concrete way for a business to determine whether candidates might make good employees. At two separate SaaS Office Hours recently, we heard similar stories from Maia at Greenhouse and Pete at Optimizely. MORE
Getting together into this associative framework has enabled us to find out about extremely valuable training and information. #ImpactOnTour ’s next stop this year is Impact Hub Madrid: at the forefront of innovation. What do we mean when we talk about ‘impact’? MORE
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. MORE
Developed from our learnings across hundreds of communities, the Community Roles framework is intended to help leaders identify skill sets in themselves and others that are key to ecosystem building. More than half of our CO.STARTERS national team (8 out of 15!) MORE
Decision framework. ? The memo sets the context for the discussion, articulates their decision framework, and explains why they are recommending a particular approach. After understanding conflicting viewpoints, use a decision-making framework (as an example see one below) to guide the discussion. The CEO took the discussion offline and came up with a decision-making framework (e.g. With special contributions from Nic Dardenne. MORE
This Unchained Podcast with Patrick Gibbs of the law firm Cooley and Ted Livingston founder of the Kin cryptocurrency project is a great discussion of the Howey Test that the SEC has put forward as the framework through which to evaluate whether a crypto token is a security. MORE
Authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie have created a framework for creation of a new product or service – one worth spending at least a cycle of time for review. MORE
How do you price a round? Its one of the most often asked questions and yet I've never seen a great answer given. It seems to me that the most important factor in pricing your round isn't your progress or your idea. It seems to come down to two things: 1) How much do you want to raise? MORE
But, there are other frameworks for setting goals. I had wanted to find some consistent framework for setting goals. Of late, I’ve been having lots of conversations with founders about setting goals. It’s a really important topic for many founders, because it’s the way that management teams align incentives and focus an organization on a few important areas. MORE
I wrote this tweetstorm on Friday when I read the blog post about Poloniex’s decision to geofence certain assets away from US customers , driven by the SEC’s recently published framework for digital assets. Geofencing Crypto Assets Out Of The US Is Bad Policy. blockchain crypto policy MORE
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Jennifer Garvey Berger applies this framework to leadership. This framework got me thinking about where I am in the Adult Development Theory. It’s very difficult question to answer. How do you judge a leader? Is it financial success? The loyalty they engender? MORE
This who , what , and why are the W3 framework that Amos lays out—the “secret sauce” of Sell More Faster. Sell More Faster is the book that every early-stage startup needs to help it find product-market fit. Every startup, at any stage, needs to get—and keep—more customers. MORE
We have a group chat with our partners where we can get quick advice, and YC’s office hours framework makes it easy to find time to dive deep when we need it. We began offering the option to apply to Y Combinator Early Decision last September. If you’re a student, applying Early Decision to YC allows you to apply one batch ahead of the current one. For example, you can apply to YC in September, get your acceptance in October, and start the program in June after you graduate. MORE
In an effort to accelerate innovation, Google is making the core Machine Learning framework Tensor Flow available as Open Source. Machine Learning will impact everything we do at Google. You can already see the results in Google products you use today. MORE
The Community Roles in Ecosystem Building framework intentionally uses language designed to help shift our thinking from institutions to individuals. By Enoch Elwell, CO.STARTERS Founder & Visionary. MORE
RBI is really designed to replace equity with a patient, flexible, long-term growth funding framework while factoring, MCAs and receivables financing are more of a short-term, working capital oriented set of solutions.” . Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Absolutely not. VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . MORE
The post Co-founder Equity Split: A New Framework to Objectively Divide Startup Ownership and Get Back to Building a Business appeared first on The Gust Blog. 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. MORE
Last fall, as a commercialization partner with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), our two organizations worked together to create a novel investment framework to manage a breakthrough drug therapy for glioblastoma. (I By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Of the more than 120 types of brain and central nervous system tumors, Glioblastoma (also called GBM) is the most aggressive — a deadly brain cancer with no cure. MORE
Emily Scott reflected on a greater understanding of the challenges faced by people of color, “Participating in the Racial Equity Institute training at the start of the Forward Cities conference set a great framework with which to go into the next two days of the gathering. MORE
Use a framework to guide the conversation. Using a set framework to guide the conversation can help you effectively and efficiently identify the issues blocking a founder. By Enoch Elwell, CO.STARTERS Founder & Visionary. MORE
We provide services and a framework to help entrepreneurs recognize that their solution needs to be tweaked or that they need to match their new product to a different market segment or industry, or a different aspect of a well-identified problem. By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. I set a goal for this summer’s series of columns to reflect on and write about my lessons-learned during my past six years of immersion in entrepreneurship. MORE
Download The State of Innovation report on operating model frameworks, findings & resources for MNCs innovating in Israel (Start-Up Nation Central and PwC Israel). Can you taste it? MORE
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MAY 17, 2012
How do you price a round? Its one of the most often asked questions and yet I've never seen a great answer given. It seems to me that the most important factor in pricing your round isn't your progress or your idea. It seems to come down to two things: 1) How much do you want to raise?
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 4, 2014
At a board meeting last week, one of the VPs of Marketing I’m lucky to work with presented a brilliantly simple way of explaining the evolution of a startup’s marketing tactics. I’ve drawn a diagram of the idea above, which borrows heavily from McKinsey’s 3 horizons. Startups have many different marketing options at their disposal: SEO/SEM, print, radio, TV, mail, affiliate, content marketing…The list goes on and on.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
This framework has helped me many times simplify strategic questions and shift from questioning to analysis to action. By using an analysis framework like the one above, you can bring clarity and a common language with your board for evaluating and making the right strategic choices Any number of challenges can arise during a startup’s initial years. Some of these changes could be major and may require rethinking strategy. Competitors enter your target market.
Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
The post Co-founder Equity Split: A New Framework to Objectively Divide Startup Ownership and Get Back to Building a Business appeared first on The Gust Blog. 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.
Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 20, 2015
But, there are other frameworks for setting goals. I had wanted to find some consistent framework for setting goals. Of late, I’ve been having lots of conversations with founders about setting goals. It’s a really important topic for many founders, because it’s the way that management teams align incentives and focus an organization on a few important areas.
Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 3, 2015
After a startup attains product market fit and begins to exceed the first breaking point of the startup management structure around 10 employees, it’s time to codify the company’s values. The values of the company are the most concrete way for a business to determine whether candidates might make good employees. At two separate SaaS Office Hours recently, we heard similar stories from Maia at Greenhouse and Pete at Optimizely.
Fred Destin
JUNE 5, 2012
Dave learned a framework called OGSM (Objectives / Goals / Strategies / Measures) after his company Bzzagent was acquired by market research firm dunnhumby. The OGSM framework can be use to manage change at each of these levels. Simple framework : the top 5 list.
Co Starters
JULY 26, 2019
The Community Roles in Ecosystem Building framework intentionally uses language designed to help shift our thinking from institutions to individuals. By Enoch Elwell, CO.STARTERS Founder & Visionary.
Co Starters
JUNE 18, 2019
Developed from our learnings across hundreds of communities, the Community Roles framework is intended to help leaders identify skill sets in themselves and others that are key to ecosystem building. More than half of our CO.STARTERS national team (8 out of 15!)
Y Combinator
JULY 15, 2019
Decision framework. ? The memo sets the context for the discussion, articulates their decision framework, and explains why they are recommending a particular approach. After understanding conflicting viewpoints, use a decision-making framework (as an example see one below) to guide the discussion. The CEO took the discussion offline and came up with a decision-making framework (e.g. With special contributions from Nic Dardenne.
A Smart Bear
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Rather, this is a framework for thinking through what needs to be done. We all know that startups should make decisions quickly.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 25, 2019
I try to keep this framework front and center in my brain as we meet with founders and work to find transactions that work for everyone. I remember when my son came home one day in high school and told me he wanted to “day trade” along with some friends who were doing it. We opened a TD Ameritrade account and staked him with a small amount of money, enough to trade but not enough that if he lost it all it would be an issue. And off he went.
Y Combinator
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
We have a group chat with our partners where we can get quick advice, and YC’s office hours framework makes it easy to find time to dive deep when we need it. We began offering the option to apply to Y Combinator Early Decision last September. If you’re a student, applying Early Decision to YC allows you to apply one batch ahead of the current one. For example, you can apply to YC in September, get your acceptance in October, and start the program in June after you graduate.
Y Combinator
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
The Risk and Work Premiums – combined with knowledge about market norms – are helpful frameworks for founders to use when evaluating whether or not to actually take the offer in front of them. Recently, while discussing a preemptive funding offer with a company, we noticed that the offer was more dilutive than expected.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2014
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.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 26, 2019
I wrote this tweetstorm on Friday when I read the blog post about Poloniex’s decision to geofence certain assets away from US customers , driven by the SEC’s recently published framework for digital assets. Geofencing Crypto Assets Out Of The US Is Bad Policy. blockchain crypto policy
TechStars
AUGUST 14, 2019
This who , what , and why are the W3 framework that Amos lays out—the “secret sauce” of Sell More Faster. Sell More Faster is the book that every early-stage startup needs to help it find product-market fit. Every startup, at any stage, needs to get—and keep—more customers.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Last fall, as a commercialization partner with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), our two organizations worked together to create a novel investment framework to manage a breakthrough drug therapy for glioblastoma. (I By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Of the more than 120 types of brain and central nervous system tumors, Glioblastoma (also called GBM) is the most aggressive — a deadly brain cancer with no cure.
Impact Hub
JUNE 18, 2019
Getting together into this associative framework has enabled us to find out about extremely valuable training and information. #ImpactOnTour ’s next stop this year is Impact Hub Madrid: at the forefront of innovation. What do we mean when we talk about ‘impact’?
Forward Cities
JUNE 27, 2019
Emily Scott reflected on a greater understanding of the challenges faced by people of color, “Participating in the Racial Equity Institute training at the start of the Forward Cities conference set a great framework with which to go into the next two days of the gathering.
FundersClub
JUNE 8, 2017
The reason for this is simple, Carella explains: For limited supply skills, most people will be already earning at the top of their profession—a circumstance that would certainly include developers on popular frameworks and those familiar with edge technologies in AI, data and cloud systems.
Impact Hub
JULY 11, 2019
Governments lay out the framework in which society moves — they also have the mandate to create a viable, sustainable, and positive future for its people and environment. WWF and Impact Hub join forces for the oceans.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JUNE 1, 2019
This Unchained Podcast with Patrick Gibbs of the law firm Cooley and Ted Livingston founder of the Kin cryptocurrency project is a great discussion of the Howey Test that the SEC has put forward as the framework through which to evaluate whether a crypto token is a security.
Startup Grind
AUGUST 13, 2018
Although we spend lots of time talking about numbers, metrics and frameworks, there’s an artistic component to entrepreneurship that’s really important. Introduction: ?
David Teten - VC
AUGUST 19, 2019
RBI is really designed to replace equity with a patient, flexible, long-term growth funding framework while factoring, MCAs and receivables financing are more of a short-term, working capital oriented set of solutions.” . Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Absolutely not. VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. .
Co Starters
JANUARY 30, 2019
Use a framework to guide the conversation. Using a set framework to guide the conversation can help you effectively and efficiently identify the issues blocking a founder. By Enoch Elwell, CO.STARTERS Founder & Visionary.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 31, 2019
Jennifer Garvey Berger applies this framework to leadership. This framework got me thinking about where I am in the Adult Development Theory. It’s very difficult question to answer. How do you judge a leader? Is it financial success? The loyalty they engender?
FundersClub
JUNE 8, 2017
FundersClub Portfolio News. Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and RSVP for the event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series.
FundersClub
JUNE 22, 2017
FundersClub Portfolio News. Flexport plans to open a 100,000-square-foot warehouse in Atlanta and is scouting for about 25,000 square feet of office space in Midtown, which will add more than 200 jobs in " Freight industry disruptor Flexport plans $100 million Atlanta hub.
Y Combinator
MAY 22, 2019
Vidit Aatrey is cofounder and CEO of Meesho. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com. Adora Cheung is a Partner at YC. Before working at YC she cofounded Homejoy. You can find Vidit on Twitter @viditaatrey and Adora is @nolimits. Topics. 00:00 – Intro. 00:45 – What is Meesho? 2:45 – Why not just sell directly to consumers?
Innovation 2 Enterprise
JULY 18, 2019
We provide services and a framework to help entrepreneurs recognize that their solution needs to be tweaked or that they need to match their new product to a different market segment or industry, or a different aspect of a well-identified problem. By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. I set a goal for this summer’s series of columns to reflect on and write about my lessons-learned during my past six years of immersion in entrepreneurship.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
But customers wanted the better product with the same pricing framework as the rest of the industry. Startups are innovation machines. They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world.
TechStars
AUGUST 5, 2019
As for Antithesis’ objective to structure a framework of metrics and KPIs for Seed/Series A pitches, Jason and his team members recognize the importance of collecting and presenting data investors care about.
OurCrowd
MAY 5, 2019
Download The State of Innovation report on operating model frameworks, findings & resources for MNCs innovating in Israel (Start-Up Nation Central and PwC Israel). Can you taste it?
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie have created a framework for creation of a new product or service – one worth spending at least a cycle of time for review.
Y Combinator
AUGUST 5, 2019
It plummeted because new infrastructure was created: a combination of open source software, modern web frameworks, SaaS developer tools, cloud hosting, and better distribution channels. Back when YC was getting started about 10 years ago, Paul Graham wrote some essays that predicted the way startup fundraising would change in the next decade – accurately, it turns out.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2018
Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling
David Teten - VC
AUGUST 7, 2019
Sometimes a Value framework might lead a VC to a company that is “hot” and running a Momentum round. As a venture capitalist, should you be a Momentum or a Value investor? To simplify, there are two classic approaches to public markets investing. The first is Momentum Investing , “a strategy to capitalize on the continuance of an existing market trend”, which usually meaning that the price has been rising in the recent past.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 25, 2013
Since then, I’ve tried to keep up-to-date with the myriad coding innovations: new databases (Hadoop, Mongo, Spark, TAO), new web frameworks (Node, Angular, Meteor) and new languages (Go, Clojure).
Don Dodge
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
In an effort to accelerate innovation, Google is making the core Machine Learning framework Tensor Flow available as Open Source. Machine Learning will impact everything we do at Google. You can already see the results in Google products you use today.
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