VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost.

Artificial Inteligence 177

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 177

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up. Key-based partitioning.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. A (Micro) VC’s Tech Stack. *

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

what is a “reasonable” cost for square foot of office space in SF). . It’s worth noting that SaaS companies could probably do something interesting with all their data in aggregate. Some of these companies do share their aggregate findings, but never their raw data. What questions do you have around operating costs?

Aggregator 60

Aggregator Startup Vertical SEC 60

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Might be kinda large market.,

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Even in this obscure niche, their napkin-math suggested that improper moisture management cost companies $1 billion in repair and replacement costs each year. This Stack Exchange forum exclusively for database administrators. I worked with a company that manufactured moisture-resistant flooring adhesive. Conclusion.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133