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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Privacy engineering rules: We can’t go a week without a new data breach or privacy violation; Marriott, Google, Facebook and more. On the seed side, we are seeing more firms focus on smaller and more concentrated portfolios instead of a spray and pray mentality. See a recent Business Insider article with more of my thoughts.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Nonprofits And For-profits

ReadWriteStart

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. Photo by svilen001.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. it is one of pdf search engines (for example [link]. Buoyed by what you and a few others have contributed, I was inspired to set about getting the entrepreneurial community to join together and create an “open source” resource more widely speaking.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

It's very hard for PLG to be the only or main motion with infrastructure products because it's not something one engineer will just test and buy. A lot of times as founders–especially technical founders, engineers, product people–believe if we build this awesome feature that solves your pain point, you should come and use it.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

I love running experiments on my own, and I'm really excited about, I don't really like the term "bio-hacking," but there's a lot of fun and educational biology and chemistry experiments you can do at home like I did some polymer synthesis and some basic yeast genetic engineering. Before that, I was an electronics engineer.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. .&# If they don’t the industry titans around them will eat their lunch.