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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. It’s time to build!

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Why large companies acquire small companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Revenue multiples, profit multiples, premium over the previous financing — these are metrics used by sellers to help determine a minimum acceptable price. Even for startups, it takes years for a new product to become good enough to demand many millions of dollars in revenue.). Startups shouldn’t act smug about this.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning. Within each brand there were several models at different price points. Finally, GM created the notion of perpetual demand within brands by continually obsoleting their own products with new models rolled out every year.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Some areas that are likely to see significant growth in the coming years include e-commerce, digital technologies, and sustainable business practices. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift towards remote work, which may lead to more flexible business models in the future. Thanks to Ben Tabai, Amaryllis ! #28-

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation.

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Startup Founders Should Focus on Managing Expectations Before Managing KPIs

YoungUpstarts

The same report from research and policy advisory organisation ‘Start-up Genome’ says that globally, 65 per cent of start-ups have less than six months of runway – most of whom will face a double dip recession, with sales dropping up to 80% depending on the vertical. Businesses could have anywhere from half a dozen to hundreds of KPIs.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. VII: Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? 20% initial ownership.

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