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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

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As part of the onboarding process, the app asks both job seekers and employers what they’re looking for - in a text box - while providing a few suggestions in a pop-up. This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Even with the pop-up suggestions, we saw significant drop-off during user onboarding.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

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You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. everything.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. My blog was wiped out.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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How did Revolution Prep start? We started in 2000. Using that, and a partnership model where we go into schools and partner with them to provide SAT and ACT service, we've been able to build up a private tutoring service from basically nothing. Ramit Varma: I've been sort of in and out of the venture space since we started.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. ” His argument is as follows.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. That’s what we’ve started to tackle and the mission RightScale is on. 9) The story of how you started RightScale is classic.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Accountability starts at an individual level.

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