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Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008

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As I am writing this, Uber has a $69 billion market cap ( nice ) and it’s a global superstar startup. Uber knew location-based services would be huge [Slide 24] Uber knew from the start that it might have adjacent markets as an option. Image Credits: Uber In 2008, smartphones were starting to be a thing.

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Accelerating AI at scale without sacrificing security

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How does a business stand out in a competitive market with AI? Keeping Data Governance at the Core of Effective AI Data falling into the wrong hands should be a concern of any business—regardless of size or status in the market.

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Dubai and the UAE partner with Google to reshape the digital future

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Sheikh Hamdan highlighted that partnerships with global leaders like Google are integral to this goal, enabling the city to set new standards in technology and develop scalable solutions that serve international markets. Ruth Porat reaffirmed Google’s dedication to the region, aligning with Dubai’s ambitious vision for digital transformation.

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How to run growth marketing during a recession

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Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. What to look for when hiring a growth marketing agency. How to improve retention, growth marketing’s golden metric. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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How startups can shake up their first idea and still crush the market

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Sometimes an original idea simply doesn’t pan out, a market gets too crowded or a company’s founders stumble onto something they have built that is actually a better business than the original idea. Box launched in 2005 as a consumer storage product before deciding to take on content management in the enterprise in 2008.

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Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction

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For founders, especially those starting companies for the first time, the gyrations of the stock market, the resulting correction in public market tech stocks, and the inevitable impact on private company fundraising might seem disheartening. Biology as technology will reinvent trillion-dollar industries.

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How today’s startup market isn’t like 1999, and what you need to raise a hot Series A

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The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But most relevant today is his experience investing during downturns, including both the 2000-era startup contraction and the 2008 financial crisis. For a little bit of context, Murphy has invested in DocuSign, Egnyte, AppDynamics and Carta, among others.

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