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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. AI characters are already hosting interactive streams and shows in which they respond to audience questions, comments, or votes in real-time.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

You know you have achieved product/market fit when you start getting orders (or users, eyeballs or whatever your criteria for success was in your business model.) bands take their built in audience and then branch into their own material. Is our solution compelling enough that they want to buy it or use it today?

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product. Someone correct me if they have a better memory.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

With over a decade + experience in three previous entrepreneurial journeys, I learned the hard way that focus and dedication to build expertise in a specific niche is important and is one of the keys to successful agency business. Thanks to Mac Fadra, MAXiM Hair Restoration ! #12- 12- Officially Incorporated and more. #14-

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch , Parks will pitch Sapient in the Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics Technology category, (9:30 to 10:30 am Saturday, March 14), aiming to impress a panel of expert judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation in emerging technology.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs

Austin Startup

Brian Yongwook Chae , CEO of Looxid Labs, will pitch at SXSW in the category of Augmented & Virtual Reality (3:30 to 4:30 pm Saturday, March 14) before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. To integrate a biometric system into HMD platforms, they have developed the most VR compatible brain-sensing technology, Looxid Link.

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Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product

Steve Blank

Every generation of new technology seems to find a willing audience in naïve journalists and eager readers. Hype before shipping any product is an obvious flaw, but what about hyping products that have shipped but have zero business model? Rocket Science seems to be a bit of an extreme case though. We all know how that ends up.