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A Startup Financial Playbook: Budgeting, Funding and Risk Management

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But with a strategic financial plan, you can position your startup for sustainable growth and a strong future. As a startup, resources are often limited, so every dollar needs to go toward driving growth or keeping operations running smoothly. You’ll need to balance your budget, find the right funding, and navigate risks carefully.

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Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19

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As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well. The post Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19 appeared first on 500 Startups. As society begins the delicate phase of re-opening, we have also given much thought to how.

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My Role as a VC: What I am and what I am not.

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That does not mean telling them how to run the company, but to help them create a management discipline--a framework for thinking about problems and solutions. If I can provide helpful context about some of the seed stage startup best practices, great, but they know their company best. I am not anyone but myself, or the next anyone.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

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And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. 10:15 Do you the LPs are more open-minded to single VC funds today?

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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

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Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. Draw from Frameworks. Improving startup productivity ? Startup psychology / confidence ?

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When to walk away from a VC who wants to invest in your startup

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Ofri Ben-Porat is the co-founder and CEO of Edgify , which focuses on federated learning frameworks and democratized training. Another one of our investors gives us full commercial support through its network of mentors that are there to support the business, not the VC. Ofri Ben-Porat. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. It’s ironic because I believe creativity is the most important success criterion for a startup. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector.