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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. Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Look at the search engine results page (SERP). Aggregators? Geography (i.e.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). 17% (13 / 80).

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others.

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Bringing Transparency to Startup Data: Our Data Repository Project

Version One Ventures

what is a “reasonable” cost for square foot of office space in SF). . It’s worth noting that SaaS companies could probably do something interesting with all their data in aggregate. Some of these companies do share their aggregate findings, but never their raw data. What questions do you have around operating costs?

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.