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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Some of the readings for this class session included What The Machine Learning Value Chain Means For Geopolitics , How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape The Global Order, An Understanding Of Ai’s Limitations Is Starting To Sink In , and The Panopticon Is Already Here. We needed to be building leveraged business models in scale.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Global search engine market share in May 2023 (source) However, since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, user habits (and perhaps expectations) began to change. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.

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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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Startup Founders Should Focus on Managing Expectations Before Managing KPIs

YoungUpstarts

by Manni Sidhu, Co-founder and CEO of Coleegs , and William Gilchrist , Founder and CEO of Konsyg. A new challenge has bloomed for founders and managers in the Covid-19 era –how do they set key performance indicators (KPIs) for the years ahead? Founders should focus on stability. Retention of Staff. Retention of Clients.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. Born Global or Die Local. Regional Ecosystems.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 11, 2020 One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , DrumG is a global technology firm that builds and operates financial market applications and networks. DrumG’s flagship product is the Titanium Network, which offers next-generation derivatives valuation services to a network of global financial institutions.