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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m That never would have happened 10 years ago.

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8 Tasks To Prepare You For Starting Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if your plan seems simple and intuitively obvious to you, writing it down and having it reviewed by experienced friends will moderate your passion and assure you that all key elements are addressed. Define key metrics to measure progress and success. Use comparable metrics for managing team member results.

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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

TechCrunch LA

But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.” Soon after, Netflix’s trans employee resource group began organizing a walkout. NetflixWalkout. — Dana Herlihey (@danaherlihey) October 20, 2021.

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Interview with Scot Lawrie and John Rhodes, Coverfly

socalTECH

For those not familiar with the writing process in Hollywood works, fill us in? We saw that there were a lot of talent discovery programs out there, such as screenwriting fellowships, labs, film festivals, workshops, and writing competitions. That's been our focus, on centralizing talent discovery on the platform.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product.

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

Both Sides of the Table

how should you organize teams in a startup? 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. what is the difference between a “pivot” or a “double dribble” (changing your business completely)?

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. The whole point of delegating investment decisions to a GP is to empower them to organize their firm to win deals and get stuff done. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days.