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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? In fact, in the very beginning, the story is the entirety of the company.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. My company is a mash up of 3 of my deepest passions: health, technology and entrepreneurship. Hi, I’m Todd.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. Facebook just reported that users spend on average 50 minutes per day (United States only) across the Facebook apps — Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp — and that this number is growing. What’s The End State For Augmented Reality?

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. In the U.S. This is HARD.

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Just 138 million video views happen in the United States despite a population of 329 million (0.42 of all DailyMotion traffic comes from the United States.). Implementation is technical (i.e.

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