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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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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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Don’t be a Grin Fucker

Both Sides of the Table

OK, this will be a test of whether using real curse words in your title or post gets all of your stuff blocked by spam filters or from appearing on HackerNews or the like. Accenture always had a chip on it’s shoulder in strategy consulting – especially compared with McKinsey, BCG and Bain.

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Some Testing is a Waste of Time: Making Business Cases for Big Bets

Reforge

We’ll make our case using an example of a big, risky bet: turning off your highest performing channel. We’ll provide a simple framework to calculate the expected value of the information gained from the experiment. The effort to apply the scientific method to marketing comes from a good place but it can also be used as a crutch.

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How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup

Y Combinator

These are the most common topics founders have asked us about. In a typical spin-out situation, there are several people who worked on the research, including a mix of students, post docs and faculty. So they take their idea and pitch it to some local VC firms. Here is the framework I recommend. It has just two rules 1.

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What It’s Really Like Being a New Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Lessons learned I’ve devised a few coping strategies. It also helps me prolong the peaks and endure the valleys because I have a mix of both, rather than weeks in a sunken valley. This was less harmful when I worked on a team with many hands to pitch in, but now it can distract me from what’s most important. Recommended reads ??

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it?

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