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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Technological Convergence – The global equity market value associated with disruptive innovation could increase to 60% by 2030. The All-Seeing Eye – Hardware and storage should be rethought from the ground up in the age of semantic video understanding, and powerful on-device models.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

www.quora.com

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? This ties into this Paul Graham article: [link] /equity. Login if you already have an account.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

Other non-semantic variables are important as well. A well-named site can thus easily rank 10-20% higher than a poorly named one on a purely non-semantic basis. First, any branding and SEO equity you built up under the old name are jeopardized. Names with homophones will cause needless confusion.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Notable Aspects of Their Business: 1) Kayak’s an Ad Business More Than a Lead Gen Business : To some this may be semantics more than anything. Revenue Per Query: $269 RPM (revenue per 1,000 searches). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Pre-IPO Funding History: Kayak has raised approximately $235M in VC funding to date.

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A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

Noise and cramped quarters basically force you to listen in on conversations) or University Café or the Peninsula Creamery to see engineers working on a startup or have breakfast in Il Fornaio to see the VC’s/Recruiters at work. You need to get inside of those building and deeper inside those conversations. Stanford – The Brains.

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Transcript of Tips for Attracting Local Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

And so it kind of goes hand-in-hand with the knowledge panel it’s just the knowledge panel for semantic knowledge as opposed to physical entities when it comes to local. Google is essentially extracting the key pieces of information from a given organic webpage and populating right on the search result.

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The Option Pool Shuffle

venturehacks.com

The rationale behind allocating more of an option pool is often basically “better safe than sorry&# rather than “let’s artificially increase equity stake of investors.&# But, this is basically just semantics. The key is to reframe the discussion in a manner that gets to the core motivations of different parties.