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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

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Business Models and Sectors. The public markets have clearly rewarded traditional, software based businesses over different business models, and that effect was starting to work its way through the earlier stage ecosystem. In a FOLD world, this is going to continue.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

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But while that particular model has seen success, it certainly won’t be the only way that companies will be able to create greater personalization and serendipitous discovery for their customers. It is very difficult to win over customers without matching the jaw-dropping value and service that Amazon has trained consumers to expect.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

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The other aspect of the people roadmap is org-level team building necessary to unlock or accompany certain stages of the business. As the company progresses through product market fit (PMF), you will want to highlight other key senior hires required to scale and round out the functional expertise of the exec team.

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Is the Future of Healthcare a Telehealth Company for Every Condition?

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Depending on the business model, some hire providers as full-time W2 workers and some assemble a network of part-time providers with disperse distribution of available hours. What’s the End Game. Many investors and operators (ourselves included) wonder what happens in the long run with all these vertical telehealth solutions.

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Friday Funism: JDCC

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JDCC stands for “Jaw-Dropping customer value through a Competition-Crushing business model.”. Jaw-Dropping (JD) customer value means that a product or service is 10x better, cheaper, or more convenient for some segment of customers.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Nuw

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We believe that Nuw represents a huge leap in this market by enabling a near frictionless peer-to-peer model that their early customers absolutely love!” Get to know the business. Rachel Hodes (RH): What problem exists in the market that your business is trying to solve? . RH: Who are your customers?

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

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Competition matters when it comes to talent, customers, funders, partners, attention, and others. One of my side-project ideas is to try to create a new strategy course at a business school focused on startup competition. And to some degree, I believe that, especially when you are talking about bigger, slow moving incumbents.

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