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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

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Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. You need a minimum viable company, not a minimum viable product. Using lessons learned from her portfolio companies like Lyft, Refinery29 and Twitch, this article should be required reading for every founder. The VCs who founders love the most.

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3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups

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This article provides a primer of the traditional methods used to value pre-revenue startups, examines some of the limitations that arise when these methods are used for novel AI startups and suggests ways to reduce risk. These questions are no longer academic. Scorecard valuation method.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 5 pitch deck slides to fix, initial viable product, MLOps acceleration

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What’s your ideal product use case? Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Making the case for IVP: Initial viable product. As a concept, minimum viable product (MVP) has given founders maximum flexibility. Dear Sophie: Any advice on visa issues for new hires?

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TechCrunch+ roundup: No-code MVP strategy, hiring under scrutiny, A/B growth testing

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Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. In a comprehensive article that weighs development costs and technical debt against time to market , Chopra encourages readers to consider factors like product defensibility and risk before deciding whether to build or buy.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Summary slide showcase, video SEO strategy, how to value AI startups

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There’s no magic formula for creating a winning pitch deck, which is why most of the articles we run on this topic continually emphasize the fundamentals. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Daily Crunch: US law enforcement charges SBF with fraud as he awaits extradition after Bahamas arrest

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“AI can scale much faster than other technologies, so what works at the beta or minimum viable product stage may not work when an AI product scales to millions of users,” says Ryan E. Long, principal attorney of Long & Associates. ” 3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Automattic TC-1, federal startup grants, ‘getting s done day’

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This Space is not a forum for pitching an article — if you’d like to submit your post for consideration, please email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com. This article contains strategic, actionable advice for implementing a GSDD program alongside the lessons the team learned as they identified problems with the experiment.