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[Interview] PSB Academy: Up-Skilling In A New Learning Economy

YoungUpstarts

This accentuates the need for talents in the hospitality industry to harness the power of digital marketing and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, in preparation for the Hospitality 4.0 It will enable individuals to understand the travellers’ needs and expectations intimately which can result in new hospitality business models.

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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. First, realize that the venture business has cycles of 7–10 years simply based on the fact that almost all venture funds have a legal lifetime of the same duration. Furthermore, the venture “business” is a business of making money off outliers. Betting on the wrong horse.

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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. But in business, you want a lot of partners. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.   You can see how these affect the harvest proceeds and investor multiples achieved at various levels.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

Through connections, or through a chance meeting at a networking or social event, an angel investor hears the entrepreneur's story, likes them and their technology, and on the spot, writes a check to provide the company with its first outside financing. There are a lot of dark, hard days. For most companies, it is simply a non-starter.

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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. Many very successful, non-technology companies have also been products of venture capital, including Home Depot, Starbucks, and Staples. but globally. No need to name names.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: MolyWorks

Austin Startup

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , MolyWorks is building a distributed recycling network to convert scrap metal into additive manufacturing grade powder and parts at the point of need. Decades if not centuries are required for Mother Nature to build the ecosystems we are aggressively harvesting. What’s your super power?

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