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Andreessen Horowitz contends : "Data is stale, limited, and hard to access. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, the central repository for financial data, is primarily designed around accounting. As a result, it only gives finance teams a backward-facing view, typically two or more weeks after the month's end. With that lag, the CFO often has difficulty assessing cash burn, revenue, or expenses in real-time. It goes without saying that, particularly now, most companies can't afford to wait six weeks to figure out when they are going to run out of cash"

news-yahoo Monday, October 26, 2020 2:05:00 PM EAT

Andreessen Horowitz says : "Once we raise the Series D, we’ll start thinking about having kids,” jokes Calley -- in what may not actually be a joke. Leslie Voorhees and Calley Means, Anomalie co-founders Investors are warming up to married co-founders. Clearbanc wants to make it easier and faster for startups to raise growth capital. Their 20-minute term sheet product is meant to help founders raise money in 20 minutes, rather than the traditional 3 to 6 months the process typically takes. But how did investors react to Clearbanc's co-founders relationship status? Not well, at first. A Clearbanc investor passed on an early round, explaining to D'Souza and Romanow that they would have backed either of them individually, but that they were worried about backing them as a couple, especially since they had only been dating for a year at that point. “The same investor ended up coming in two rounds later at 100 times the valuation,” says D’Souza. This, they felt, proved that fear of investing in a couple was a false sense of increased risk. It seems investors today agree. When the married co-founders of Apli, a Mexico-based on-demand recruiting platform, walked into the office of ALLVP, the fund wasn't entirely sure about what it meant to invest in a company run by a married couple. Founders Vera and Jose met while studying together at Harvard Business School before working at two separate Rocket Internet companies in Mexico and foundling Apli. The business model, product market fit and potential impact for the company were typical factors the fund mulled over before writing a check, but ALLVP also considered the founders' married status. “After some discussion, we decided to analyze the team as any other founding team,” says ALLVP partner Federico Antoni. Besides the obvious personal chemistry, there was a professional chemistry between Vera and Jose. “We weighed the risk of divorce and decided to take it. We gained a team fully invested in the company and one that could balance personal life and startup life”. Equity could pose another risk factor. Investors could be wary of founder couples depending on the equity structure. If their finances are combined, a co-founder couple could own a supermajority of a startup. Say two non-married founders owned 20% of a company -- a co-founder couple whose finances are tied together would own 40%. Given this logic, VCs would inherently have more negotiating power if the founders aren't financially linked. VCs I talked to didn't necessarily agree with that logic, though. “The only thing with equity that matters to me is if the founders have enough,"

news-yahoo Friday, February 14, 2020 10:18:00 PM EAT

Andreessen Horowitz announced : "A self-driving car is effectively a data center on wheels,"

zdnet Tuesday, November 7, 2017 8:53:00 PM EAT

Key Titles and Phrases (Last 30)
Names (Top 30)

Key Titles and Phrases	Count	Lang	Last Seen
early investor	7.69%	EN	08/09/201609/08/2016
investor	46.15%	EN	01/26/201526/01/2015
general	46.15%	EN	06/26/201426/06/2014

Names	Lang	Count
Andreessen Horowitz	EN	62.94%
Andreessen Horowitz	PT	9.97%
Andreessen Horowitz	FR	9.79%
Andreessen Horowitz	ES	8.57%
Andreessen Horowitz	RU	8.22%
Andreessen Horowitz	DE	0.17%
Andreessen Horowitz	NO	0.17%
Andreessen Horowitz	PL	0.17%

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