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Some Quick Things Every Founder Should Know

Both Sides of the Table

You get to have interesting conversations with founders and review business plans and then see how these businesses evolve over the years. You wouldn't build a single point of failure in your code - shouldn't in your company. One thing that comes with being a venture capitalist is you see hundreds and hundreds of businesses.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Regional Angel funds that pool investors capital and typically make a one time investment in a startup, sometimes at an early stage but often at a slightly later stage. Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals. Large regionally based early stage funds have mostly failed.

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Benefits Of Documentation Management In Remote Working

YoungUpstarts

by Mahendra Gupta of Saviom Software. Documentation management focuses on creating, reviewing, modifying, certifying, issuing, and distributing the documents that validate your project approach. Improper documentation management can diminish enterprise visibility due to the silos that crop up across work and the resource pool.

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10 Tips for Finding Venture Funding

Up and Running

And most venture capital wants to invest larger amounts in later-stage startups. Here are my 10 tips (oh, and by the way, I did raise venture capital for Palo Alto Software at one point, and I’ve been a consultant to venture capital for 35 years). Are you still with me? Although, for the record, there are some exceptions.

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Benchmarking LLMs performance

VC Cafe

It’s multilingual (100 languages), can do math and reasoning and it is able to code. trillion token dataset that follows the LLaMA recipe) are gaining popularity due to their flexibility and affordability. Google is throwing everything at AI and positioned the company to make AI its top priority.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. In an early stage deal that fund might reserve 2x their initial investment or if it’s a larger round or later stage they might reserve 1x.