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. Easy to sell to?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Start with benchmarks Benchmarks are helpful to reference when you’re allocating capital across all budget items, and your board and investors can help with identifying the most relevant benchmarks for your company. The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The name RenderMan was coined in reference to the Sony Walkman for a futuristic rendering software that was so tiny it could fit inside a pocket. Creations like Zaranova are building off of the base project framework, which already has an AI agent stack, to create their own game designs off the core experience.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. Last weekend, the network began banning certain parody accounts following a Musk-led rule change, including the accounts of high-profile comedians.

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