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Extended Requests for Startups 2025 list

VC Cafe

AI Agents & Software Personalised AI Agent Development: Create AI agents that can understand user intent, plan actions, and improve through continuous learning, with a focus on specific verticals like travel, healthcare, or finance. Compliance and Audit: YC sees a large opportunity to automate compliance and audit tasks using AI.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Industry-specific domain experience becomes critical when identifying operational pain points ripe for transformation. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. This provides both valuable experience and an understanding of the operational issues within each sector.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?” Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really. I was just in marketing. All I had done was proudly go out and get customer input.

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Would you mind sharing them?

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

In 2019, I want to take that to another level by setting specific goals to develop the expertise of our staff members and to further cement our authority as the digital marketing experts in our verticals. Our staff will improve their expertise through more in-depth research and training. Thanks to Dan Goldstein, Page 1 Solutions, LLC ! #11-

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Oddly enough, this doesn’t mean removing pages. Tossing Out Pages And Content Blocks. Blocks-to-groups would be a many-to-many database relationship.

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