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

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Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

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Then as your business grows, you’ve already established a culture of good engineering practices, you already have the senior staff up to speed, and you’ll find it easy to attract more talent. it could also cost your business real money at a crucial early moment in its life.

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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

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That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. What would you say is the biggest “cost” in our current situation? The cost doesn’t have to be monetary. Tissue engineering is a field that is only a couple of decades old.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

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This is not dissimilar to the explosion of applications we saw in the mid-2000’s fueled by declining computing costs, cloud infrastructure, and social platforms. First, the ease at which developers can get started working with AI models is starting to lead to a Cambrian explosion of products and applications that leverage this technology.

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Which Fundraising Round Should You Skip?

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Also, the benefit of raising a pre-seed from great partners probably outweighs the cost. Most series A’s in B2B require a minimum level of top line revenue and a minimum amount of historical data to prove retention and some sort of repeatable growth engine.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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Joris Poort , Founder and CEO, Rescale (Software platform and hardware infrastructure to perform scientific and engineering simulations; undisclosed capital raised, per CrunchBase): We spent two and a half years writing custom software to run large-scale simulations on Boeing’s data centers.

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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

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Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. ” It’s a very different story.

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