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Five Lessons Learned from the Ample Hills $8 Million Raise

This is going to be BIG.

A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window. 1) Find backers who love you for what you are, even if you're a square peg.

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Tradeoffs in Innovative Careers

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With any company I work with, I inevitably play the role or recruiter--mostly because I often play the role of career counselor to friends and other folks in the community. I've been thinking about career paths for a long time. It just depends on what's most important to you, what your risk tolerances are, etc.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

CEO of Quora Adam D’Angelo discusses how building infrastructure for creators can democratize AI with a16z general partner David George. [01:07] CEO of Quora Adam D’Angelo discusses how building infrastructure for creators can democratize AI with a16z general partner David George. [01:07] The technology just wasn’t there.

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

Reforge

Many of the world’s most valuable and fast-growing companies — Google, Uber, Amazon — credit their success to running thousands of experiments. Even when you do achieve hard won victories after months of grinding — +20% here, +10% there — the inevitable question from the CEO always comes: “why can’t I see it in the bottom line?”.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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I know my title is a bit goofy since it talks in third person but I figured if any of you hit the Tweet button (feel free to!) It was a more intimate version than you might find in one of my speeches and I enjoyed that. If you want a sneak peak on that it’s in the video or transcript. 00:00:52] MARK: Sure.

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Play to Win: Mobile Game Soft Launch Best Practices

Andreessen Horowitz

And if you do soft launch, how can you tell if your game will be successful? This blog post will explore what a soft launch is and why it can be beneficial for game studios. What’s a Soft Launch? There are typically two stages of soft launch: alpha and beta. Why is soft launch important to consider?

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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I love how transparently Danielle lives her startup (& encourages other to join in) because it provides much needed transparency to other startups. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Here’s overall what you need to know.

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