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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Source: Graphtreon. They might flock to new, open source solution, to reduce platform fees and increase their share. ” Eric Feng. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency.

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

David Teten

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. There are also others. But obviously I’m biased. I think some will do this.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar. accessibility. authenticity.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

He is a venture partner at True Ventures. We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19