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

TechCrunch LA

They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction. When asked in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter , co-CEO Ted Sarandos didn’t say whether he would meet the group’s demands. brb walking out. brb walking out.

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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail. An empty textbox, demanding to be filled with a concise, compelling summary to impress potential employers is daunting. Everyone struggles with empty text boxes.

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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

41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 40:05 What happened after Imvu.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Mo’s other degree was English, mine was Political Science.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Writing down key parameters will force you solidify the specifics, and mentally commit to them.

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Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

Both Sides of the Table

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future). But it’s quite rare.

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