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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices.

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It’s not easy to sell into an industry being disrupted

Version One Ventures

Likewise, over the past 5 years, I’ve seen dozens of start-ups trying to sell different tools and technologies to help newspaper companies keep up in an online world. Whenever there’s a complete disruption of the business model, it means that the underlying rules for that vertical have dramatically changed.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. But in business, you want a lot of partners. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. We’re about to ship next week.” or posterous, but you have to pay for it&#.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Renzoe Box

Austin Startup

One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Graham will pitch Renzoe in the category Consumer Technology & CPG (9:30 am to 10:30 am Sunday, March 15) before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. Graham talked about what she loves about Austin, her curiosity about facial recognition technology and the power of shape-shifting.