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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. Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner.

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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

YoungUpstarts

That obsession with food had inspired Jon Yongfook Cockle to put together, as a weekend hacking experiment , a website that does a take on content aggregation around food reviews. We’d hazard a guess that his affinity with food was what prompted him to develop Opinioneated ( www.opinioneated.com ). The second was Opinioneated.”

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

David Teten

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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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.” Rule 2 : In an existing market Customer Development means understanding whether your hypothesis of why customers will buy match reality.

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

David Teten

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. the Untouched Vertical. 3) Raise capital.

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

And I believe, even at their scale, their ad load will need to further increase (along with their targeting abilities) in order to signficantly grow the business. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. Chris McCoy.