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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. This post is applicable to any kind of business.

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5 Ways Startups Can Use Digital Marketing To Fuel Growth In The Post COVID-19 World

The Startup Magazine

Improving your visibility and Rankings on Search Engines with SEO. Many startups are using the pandemic to invest in SEO or Search Engine Optimization. SEO is the process of ranking your website for your industry-relevant keywords on search engines. Improve traffic figures, metrics and digital performance.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU.

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Instead of Asking AI Companies to ‘SLOW DOWN’ We Should Encourage Them to Move Even Faster

Hunter Walker

Perhaps the most well-known example in our industry is the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which provided safe harbor to Internet businesses around copyright infringement performed by their end users so long as several preconditions were met (such as direct financial benefit, knowledge of infringing materials, and so on).

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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