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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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GreenPost – Because Bills Should Be Green

YoungUpstarts

If you’re anything like me, I get really annoyed by the stacks upon stacks of bills I receive every month – not only is it a painful reminder of how much hard-earned money is being sucked from me, but also because it’s really, really difficult to keep track of one’s finances this way. The Journey.

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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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10 challenges investors face in Metaverse and Web3

VC Cafe

For founders reading this, hope its help you better understand how investors think and address it in your pitch. Metaverse – it has both B2B and B2C applications. Yuga Labs Pitch Deck: BAYC founders project $455M NFT revenue (2022) from Pitch Decks. Metaverse goes beyond just virtual worlds and gaming. link] — jack??

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

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. Money and Finance Lists. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. Google Lists.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.