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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. With advisors or a board, the founders could have opened the kimono and asked for guidance.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

In the fallout from the pandemic, most founders and CEOs are in the process of completely revamping their growth models from the bottom up amid new and unpredictable consumer behavior. ” And I think, specifically for founders who are probably listening to this, the category data is interesting but it’s actually not that helpful.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

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9 Things That Tell You To Pivot

YoungUpstarts

by Jon Leighton, Director of digital agency iResources and founder of neatly.io. I spoke to a founder recently about a pivot; they offered an ad tech solution to enterprise clients and had just spent six months on a new feature. Cash is king, always has been and always will be. He is also the founder of neatly.io