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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. New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run. Generalizable robotics represent a $24 trillion-plus global revenue opportunity.

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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. aggregates resources from all the VCs. Then, pluck the low-hanging fruit: easy, low-cost, and highly scalable infrastructure. AskAnything.VC

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

Startup Lessons Learned

With hundred of thousands of global practitioners, the supply of ideas and best practices is endless. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. ReadyTalk, a 15-year-old web conferencing software company, launched an internal startup.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. 4) Manage deal flow.

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. Inspired by the movie ‘Moneyball,’ MoneyBall syndrome refers to the fact that companies aren’t looking into the right metrics when measuring the effectiveness of their mobile website. But conversion rate alone is not a success metric.

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Instead of Asking AI Companies to ‘SLOW DOWN’ We Should Encourage Them to Move Even Faster

Hunter Walker

The DMCA allowed for billions of people globally to express themselves online, prompted new business model experiments, and created guardrails for any entrepreneur to stay legal. It’s the evolution of what I hoped — not software eating the world, but software enabling it. And it’s moving very very quickly. Whatcha think?

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Maternova and the Business of Saving Lives: A Secret to Success Story

Up and Running

As can be imagined, tackling a global, public health problem through social enterprise is not just a worthy goal, but a lofty one. What started as a basic obstetrics kit, adopted early on by doctors and midwives, has expanded into a global, online marketplace. She and Meg formed Maternova and set out to doing just that.