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Generative AI: Incumbents vs. Upstarts

VC Cafe

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. Post-Mortem Title : Untitled Partners Post-Mortem. Company : Untitled Partners. Accel Partners. Greylock Partners. I realized that money was not the issue. Author : Jordan Cooper.

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2020 Accel Euroscape: Decacorn Unleashed

Cracking the Code

We've invested $5B+ in more than 250 companies and feel privileged to have partnered with category-defining companies such as Atlassian, Crowdstrike, Docusign, Dropbox, Slack and UiPath. The average revenue multiple is now 17x+, close to 10 times higher than during the 2008 crisis! And Europe has shown even greater acceleration.

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Swipe debit card, get stock; In defense of the IPO; New models for SMB lending, and more

Ben's Blog

Anish Acharya , a16z fintech general partner In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it There’s a popular narrative that evil investment bankers are intentionally underpricing traditional IPOs to steal from companies, lining banker pockets and those of their fatcat Wall Street clients. Source: Cornerstone Advisors.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. You’re also living in an anti-Microsoft fantasy land if you think that all things that need to be done can be done with widgets and APIs provided in.Net. March 25, 2011 at 7:16 pm.

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Libox Wants To Manage All of Your Media and on Any Device (Interview with Erez Pilosof)

VC Cafe

But now we can easily extend Libox by openning our developer API. All you need to know is HTML, and our API consists of only about 10 commands. Since we have APIs, we have opportunities for business models with media and content partners. Corporations and strategic partners, using the Libox platform.

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