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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC Minimal cost. .

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. Even if they give you conversion rate benchmarks. See Page 269. :).

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? We’re about to ship next week.” or posterous, but you have to pay for it&#.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. Harvard Business School Current Research Sources for Private Equity.

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How to Come Up with More Winning Tests Using Data

ConversionXL

While testing is a critical part of conversion optimization to make sure we actually made things better and by how much, it’s also the tip of the iceberg of the full CRO picture. This comes down to the most important thing about conversion optimization – the discovery of matters. This is not where the difficulty lies.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Renzoe Box

Austin Startup

There’s nothing quite like exploring a culture through its buildings and aggregates of man-made structures. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Tell us about something you love.