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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. There’s the Alfred P. The next year, 1910, trouble hit.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Passbase

Austin Startup

Tell us your favorite thing about being based in New York. I love New York because it’s deeply honest. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Eric Ries in Times Square For any model to be useful it has to predict what happens in the real world – including the web.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG

Austin Startup

DrumG is located in New York, London, Singapore and Bermuda. Benjamin Nadareski , who handles Global Business Development and Strategy for DrumG, will pitch at SXSW in the category of Blockchain Technology from 12:30 to 1:30 pm Sunday, March 15, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG

Austin Startup

DrumG is located in New York, London, Singapore and Bermuda. Benjamin Nadareski , who handles Global Business Development and Strategy for DrumG, will pitch at SXSW in the category of Blockchain Technology from 12:30 to 1:30 pm Sunday, March 15, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. —– Versatile Venture Capital is a new venture capital fund specializing in companies targeting early profitability, based in New York City.

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