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Your MVP doesn’t need to be perfect; it needs to be stage appropriate

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Startups are essentially machines that build MVPs (minimum viable products) that help answer questions and gradually de-risk the value proposition of the company. The key is that every MVP a company builds needs to be laser focused on answering a very particular question.

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

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CB Insights forecasts a roughly 20% drop in total VC investments from Q1 to Q2, leaving ambitious young companies scrambling to fight for scraps. Whether it’s dedicated impact funds or value-based venture capital firms, funders tend to back companies that have demonstrated their ability to scale.

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3 views: What does ‘Line Go Up’ tell us about the state of the NFT art market?

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Here’s where we ended up: Walter Thompson: NFTs are scarcely minimum viable products. Walter Thompson: NFTs are scarcely minimum viable products. Publicly traded companies like Nike and Visa are spending millions to get in early on these unregulated, highly speculative investments.

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Miferia wants to expand its wholesale inventory marketplace across Latin America

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This enables retailers to bring their inventory relationships online, expand their product selection and get more favorable credit terms. Users register with the company by providing some details, and a few more financial ones if they want to apply for credit. The seed funding is the first institutional round the company has taken.

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Get Better User Insights With Wasteless Validation

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Product Management Coach and Consultant

Product teams tend to get ahead of themselves by rushing from idea straight to building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Additionally, many companies lack the tools and processes to validate their ideas without adding them to their Sprint Backlog.

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Amazon wants to boost ten generative AI startups around the globe

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That said, acceptees will receive up to $300,000 in AWS credits to help build their companies. Applications are open for the next two weeks and ten startups will be chosen, the company says. AWS will not invest in startups and does not yet have an AI/ML investment arm. As for why now, isn’t it obvious?

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3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups

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Valuing pre-revenue tech startups is an established process today, but do the methods employed apply equally to pre-revenue companies using novel artificial intelligence? We’ll later delve into some of the challenges in applying these methods to an early-stage company with novel AI applications. These questions are no longer academic.