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VCs Reject 99% of Pitches, Accepting Fewer Than 10 Annually
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VCs say no to almost everything. One told me their firm sees thousands of pitches every year and says yes to fewer than 10.
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Inside Notion AI: Token Town Team Building Knowledge Work AI
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The Full Story of Notion AI https://
latent.space/p/notion We're so excited to chat with @simonlast and @sarahmsachs about Notion's "Token Town" – the crack team of AI Engineers and Model Behavior Engineers entrusted with building AI for Silicon Valley's most beloved knowledge work -
Aeos scales to 550 employees with operational challenges
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Aeos is like 550 full time people now. It works, but there's still some manual work (we have healthy margins though). If it didn't work I think I would run into liquidity crises since clients delay payments sometimes
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How Tech Business Models Evolve: From 9GAG to Modern Apps
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it all changes so fast, I remember in first year college friends were talking about 9gag (meme app) being a viable business model! (2012 era)
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Digital Business Metas for Young Founders Evolving with Technology
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random 4am thoughts but i think every few years there are *specifically digital* business structuring metas for really young founders that keep changing as new tech/mediums arrive and venture behavior changes. 2018-2022 was influencer + commodities/courses or raise lots of $$
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Starbucks Founder Heard 200 Rejections Before First Investment
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Starbucks heard no 200 times its first investor told me. It is usually a brutal process.
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GTM Startups as Self-Dogfooding Recursive Loops for Growth
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i think one of the most impt recursive loops in startups is startups that improve marketing/revenue growth (aka GTM) because they can obviously dogfood it for themselves. considering starting a track for this at AIE WF due to its imptnce. https://
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Investor Language: When We Means Me in VC
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did he say that PRE investing as well? its nice when done well ive found some investors do the “we” thing a lot and sometimes it comes across as bit too presumptuous, like what do u mean “we” its mostly me
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Tech Project Fails Budget Expectations and Delivery Timeline
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Late, over the budget, and probably grossly unprofitable and plagued with scarcity. Who would have thought! https://
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