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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

Both Sides of the Table

There are some smart if not somewhat cerebral bloggers I read who say that you shouldn’t take any startup advice at all because it’s too generalized to be useful to your situation. Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. So what IS one to do?

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Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform

TechCrunch

Annoyed by the limitations of traditional frameworks and CMSes, many of which weren’t developed with mobile websites in mind, they decided to create their own solution, Strapi, to use for clients’ projects. “For us, making the project open source was a no-brainer,” Burgy said in an email interview.

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The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Companies that embrace this new model, called interaction field companies, generate, facilitate and benefit from interactions and data exchanges among multiple people and groups—from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn’t expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators and even competitors. .

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Here’s how I wish more growth-stage teams approached their R&D spend: Use benchmarks to initially ballpark your overall spend (but remember there are good reasons to vary from benchmarks). 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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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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TechCrunch+ Roundup: Reaching $1M ARR, tech job market rundown, women-led VC firms

TechCrunch

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. .”

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Sylvera takes $32M to build trust in carbon offsetting ratings

TechCrunch

based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery and lidar with the goal of boosting accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects, has fast followed a $5.8 “We have a mix of customers spanning corporate buyers, traders and exchanges,” it adds.