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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

In fact, let me provide an important warning: If you create these documents, don't have input from a technical resource, take it to a development shop and they provide you a price. You might also have a business plan, marketing plan, financials, competitor analysis or other kinds of background document. That's fairly uncommon.

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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

TechEmpower

Utilizing AI, the tool interprets the queries, scans through a broad range of documents spread across different repositories, and delivers relevant answers. Utilizing AI, the tool interprets the queries, scans through a broad range of documents spread across different repositories, and delivers relevant answers.

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Annual reviews or constant feedback?

Berkonomics

What metrics will you use to fairly evaluate each direct report? Email readers, continue here…] Second, employees most often genuinely want to know how they are performing against the company’s standard and management expectations. In terms of time, this can be expensive and disruptive to you and your direct reports.

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

Both Sides of the Table

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. I would likely open up your deck, read it again and begin contemplating your company again.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.” What happens is 18–20 firms access the data room and download all of your documents. Kai taught me that the key metric to whether a sales process is going well is “engagement.” It doesn’t.

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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.” The leaked information in question appears to be some internal metrics on “The Closer” that appeared in a story by Bloomberg , which reported that Netflix spent $24.1

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Why You Don’t Want to Give Financial Information to All of Your Investors

Both Sides of the Table

Generally speaking in venture capital financings the legal documents will specify that only “major investors” (a threshold set in the agreement – which can be $500,000 investor or more). I was just super fortunate that since it listed our name in the email solicitation that an investor reached out to me to ask us about it.