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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. For GitLab, we had an open source version of the product. They grew so much on this B2C concept, but then a few years ago, they hired a sales team and this year they begin to hire more. So they added sales team.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. I think actually actively selling your stuff is very important for a startup these days.