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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. It’s time to build!

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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. Opinioneated essentially pulls food reviews from established Singapore bloggers and aggregates them on a map of Singapore. The second was Opinioneated.”

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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

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It’s not easy to sell into an industry being disrupted

Version One Ventures

Whenever there’s a complete disruption of the business model, it means that the underlying rules for that vertical have dramatically changed. A company that’s being disrupted certainly feels the pain that their business model is under attack. News AbeBooks Amazon Bookselling Business model disruption twitter'

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

It may just be that the message of building companies that have predictable revenue and profit models hasn’t percolated through the VC business model. Unfortunately, regardless of a VC’s age, their business models are suffering and IPOs seem to be a thing of the past for at least a while longer.

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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). … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. See Page 269. :).

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. We’re about to ship next week.” or posterous, but you have to pay for it&#.