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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail. So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello! This gives Mark more control over the process, without requiring him to write much, and gives the LLM more to work with.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. what format would you and the developer want that in? You likely are writing your first one of these. Conversations with a technical advisors or possible developers should be iterative.

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Everything changes from concept to release.

Berkonomics

A product at the concept stage contains feature-functionality that customers may not want or be willing to pay for, or which just might not work well enough for release to the public. This is not to state that the customer tests a new product before we do internally, although many of us are surely guilty of that error. Rush to market?

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My story: Fail locally, one customer at a time.

Berkonomics

In my case as a young software entrepreneur, I had a different approach: Fail Locally, one customer at a time. I was fortunate that I could write software and doubly fortunate that my despair at working for ‘the Man’ – and feeling compelled to strike out on my own – coincided with the dawn of the personal computer era.

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Good Business Writing is Not a Mark Twain Novel

Startup Professionals Musings

The stakes are high – you are asking an investor for money, a customer for an order, or another executive for a partnership. No one is born with business writing skills, and everyone can learn them. Before you start writing, it’s important to ask yourself what you intend the document to accomplish. Make it look good.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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Business Writing Style is as Important as Content

Startup Professionals Musings

The stakes are high – you are asking an investor for money, a customer for an order, or another executive for a partnership. No one is born with business writing skills, and everyone can learn them. Before you start writing, it's important to ask yourself what you intend the document to accomplish. Make it look good.

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