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19 Entrepreneurs List Their Favorite Technology Innovation

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs what has been their favorite technology innovation and here is what they have to say: #1- Personal finance management Photo Credit: Shammika Munugoda I founded and created a personal finance management app about 8 years ago. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Tell us in the comments below.

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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. Social Hybrid AI x human communities – messaging & social apps where bots are treated as equal citizens. AI – tax planning or wealth management augmented and in some cases replaced with AI.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

Katina served as a Senior Executive and Management Committee Advisor at Bridgewater Associates. Reporting directly to the CEO, Katina managed various departments including Back and Middle Office, IT, Recruiting and Talent, Client Service Reporting, Fund Legal and Compliance. However, this is about to change.

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

David Teten

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. aggregates resources from all the VCs. The popularity of the model can be judged by the fact that the U.S. AskAnything.VC

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Retention rates had declined from the high 90s to the mid 80s, which senior management felt the need to address quickly.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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