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How to Get into Venture Capital - An Update

This is going to be BIG.

And no, analyzing startups is not a portfolio company benefit. To the company, as a recently minted MBA with no startup experience who wants to run the 4th year numbers, you''re just a pain in the ass. That''s a benefit to the VC firm.

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Admitting that you have no idea what you're doing

This is going to be BIG.

The answer to how you in particular should spend your time is twofold: Consult with your investors, advisors, and peers and where they thing you need to focus your energy--and get on the same page about the balance between near term and long term goals. Share your execution problems with others to get feedback on how you can improve.

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Reverse Engineering a Career

This is going to be BIG.

I run into a lot of people trying to switch careers and join a startup. Just start looking for blog posts on "10 SEO tips for startups" or "How to write a marketing survey". Now you need some practice. Then again, how many lean startups are out there with lots of stuff to do without the time to do it.

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The state of the AI Agents ecosystem: The tech, use cases, and economics

Insight Partners

User-in-the-loop: Developers working closely with users across the full agentic lifecycle For Agents to move beyond experiments, developers are taking a consultative approach to iterating with users on design, deployment, and scaling in production environments. We share two key learnings and design tradeoffs from our conversations below: 1.

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How CEO Sahil Aggarwal created a product he believes every business on Earth will (eventually) use

Insight Partners

After studying electrical engineering in India, Aggarwal began his professional career at the New Delhi-based pharmaceutical consulting firm ZS Associates in 2013. However, he soon realized the corporate consulting world didn’t inspire him, so he shifted his focus to product development.

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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

Singleplatform was a referral from an IT consultant who was trying to sell me stuff—which was pretty much the most random source ever, and Backupify was actually my own idea built by someone far more capable than I was to see it through. That’s also why we do educational classes on VC best practices.

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Independently Sponsored: Atlasview Equity

Trivest Partners

It all started when I left Deloitte to launch my own consulting firm to help businesses scale growth through digital channels. My firm worked with over 300+ clients, ranging from YC-backed startups to large publicly traded companies. Atlasview Equity officially launched in 2020, but the firm’s origins date back to over a decade ago.