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How to improve your business strategy with pgf500 platform

How to improve your business strategy with pgf500 platform

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The first step is to photograph the current business strategy.

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To do this, the best tool is to use a model called a Sustainable Business Model Canvas.

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So you can use pgf500 platform, open your own project, and enter all your info in the Sustainable Business Model Canvas.

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Once this is done, since you have 15 days of free trial, you can create a pivot of your project and invite your team to the second project, simply by entering their emails in “Team”.

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At this point you and your team can work on the new strategy, a new business model, experimenting with new actions and seizing new opportunities.

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Remember that all the information in the 11 fields of the Sustainable Business Model Canvas is important.

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In addition, you can also turn your business green, in order to become sustainable and carbon-neutral, Net Zero.

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If you want to better understand what a business model is, find some insights at these links:

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Business Model Canvas

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Sustainable Business Model Canvas

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COP27

THE FUTURE OF EMISSIONS AND GLOBAL TEMPERATURES

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Global climate plans announced by countries to date have bent the “emissions curve” significantly from where it was prior to the 2015 Paris Agreement, but far from enough to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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WEO22 | World Energy Outlook is out

The global energy crisis can be a historic turning point towards a cleaner & more secure future

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We just released this year’s edition of our flagship publication, the World Energy Outlook (WEO), which shows that global energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is causing profound and long-lasting changes that have the potential to hasten the transition to a more sustainable and secure energy system.

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The report, the gold standard for energy analysis, examines the ongoing shock of unprecedented breadth and complexity that has already caused major tremors in natural gas, coal, electricity and oil markets. It assesses the policy responses by governments around the world, which promise to accelerate the transition to clean energy.

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And it weighs how these changes measure up against the world’s climate commitments and energy security needs.

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Read about the key findings – including what the latest developments mean for the long-term outlook for fossil fuels, renewables, energy efficiency and more – in the press release and executive summary.

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Go deeper by exploring more of the online content from this year’s WEO, including the full report available to download for free.

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Watch the livestreamed launch event at 11 am Paris time today with our Executive Director Fatih Birol and lead authors Laura Cozzi and Tim Gould.

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For the first time, this year’s World Energy Outlook includes a series of interactive data stories that enable you to explore the key findings visually. Take a look!

World Energy Outlook 2022

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What is the difference between climate tech and clean tech?

Climate tech includes some similar functions to clean tech, but climate tech primarily focuses on greenhouse gas emissions.

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This includes removing greenhouse gases in the environment and reducing future emissions.

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Climate tech initiatives include the following:

  • Agri-tech. Agri-tech helps mitigate greenhouse gases with initiatives such as reducing livestock manure, using less pesticides and improving crop-growing processes — for example, by using aeroponics.

  • Afforestation. To assist with carbon capture, afforestation creates new forests so that trees can reduce carbon dioxide and add oxygen to the air, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Organizations work with the timber industry to help restore trees in degraded areas.

  • Carbon capture. The main gas contributing to climate change and global heating is carbon dioxide. Capturing carbon and preventing it from going into the environment can help mitigate the effects. Manufacturers are looking for clean energy using carbon capture technology, which takes carbon from the manufacturer, stores it, and turns it into hydrogen for power with minimal or zero greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Geoengineering. Also referred to as climate engineering, geoengineering’s goal is to alter the climate system to reduce the effects of climate change. One way to do this is to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by capturing the gas and storing it below ground. Solar radiation management is another form of geoengineering that captures and reduces the sun’s rays to prevent warming the Earth.

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What’s the difference between climate tech and clean tech?

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Climate tech includes some similar functions to clean tech, but climate tech primarily focuses on greenhouse gas emissions. However, these emissions are only one portion of society’s effects on the environment.

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What’s the difference between climate tech and clean tech?

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Climate tech is a hot investment in 2022 — next five years could be even hotter

Despite whispers of a downturn earlier this year, investors continue to express confidence in climate tech. Though numbers are down compared with 2021, a year that many agree is an outlier in the VC world, they’re on track to beat 2020 as the second hottest year for investment.

What’s more, deal counts and values were up in the second quarter of this year compared with the first, suggesting that the slowdown has more or less skipped climate tech.

Though deal count is down nearly 19% compared with last year, it was up 15.4% in the second quarter, according to a PitchBook analysis. Total market deal value, down year over year, was up significantly in Q2, and the average value per deal has held steady at $23.6 million, more than triple what it was five years ago.

In some ways, those modest numbers could be interpreted as a slight cooldown. But the sector is probably just taking a breather given its near-term potential. Just five years from now, PitchBook estimates the climate tech market will near $1.4 trillion, representing a compound annual growth rate of 8.8%.

With that kind of growth coming down the pike, there are a lot of different bets to place in the climate tech sector, but a few stand out for their early-stage potential and favorable tailwinds.

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Climate tech is a hot investment in 2022

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Web3 | summer reads, cool tools

1. Detecting ‘metamorphic’ smart contracts

Michael Blau

Smart contract code is supposed to be immutable once it’s deployed on blockchain, but in practice, you can create smart contracts that “metamorphose” into something else. (Imagine turning a token-staking contract into a token-stealing one, for instance!) Since this could undermine trust in web3 decentralized systems, a16z crypto engineering not only shares how the shape-shifting works, but also built a tool to analyze smart contracts for such “metamorphic” properties. While some metamorphic smart contracts may elude detection (or the detector could raise false positives), this tool is a useful first step for builders to understand and build on.
learn more about metamorphic contracts / use Detector tool 

2. Zero-knowledge information sharing through ‘zkDocs’

Sam Ragsdale, Dan Boneh

Most blockchain transactions are public by design, but this can make them less favorable for relaying private information to institutions. For example: Does your mortgage lender getting your pay stubs really need to know all those details… or just verify that your salary actually meets their loan requirements? This is where zero-knowledge proofs – which allow us to cryptographically prove facts about information without revealing what the information is – come in. a16z crypto engineering (& research) demonstrates how zero-knowledge-enabled documents could improve on traditional, error-prone, inefficient verification workflows — while preserving both privacy and decentralization.
learn more about zkDocs / watch demo 

3. What can web3 (& other) organizations learn from the history of democratic governance?

Porter Smith, Andrew Hall

web3 has created a new “laboratory” for democratic governance — through widespread experimentation; fast iteration cycles; and unprecedented digital participation and blending of civic and corporate, public and private. To date, however, web3 governance has overly relied on direct democracy, leading to low participation and concerns about weak oversight, interest-group capture, and group decision-making. But these are also the same challenges societies and organizations have experienced for millennia… So there’s lots of room to borrow best practices from the history of governance (drawing on both research, and observations of these systems in practice), to build more effective systems today.
read article on ‘Lightspeed Democracy’ here 

4. Decentralized creativity & collaboration

Rob McElhenney, Chris Dixon, Sonal Chokshi

“Decentralized media” and “decentralized content creation” are hot topics, but what does this really mean, how would it work in practice… and does it even need web3?! In this first live taping of our podcast ‘web3 with a16z’ — featuring special guest and longtime writer, actor, executive producer Rob McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mythic Quest; Adim) — we discuss decentralized creativity, collaboration, community; managing writer’s rooms, creator access; IP and NFTs; metaverse, storytelling across mediums; favorite TV shows, nostalgia, and more.
listen to the episode here

5. Some books we’re reading this summer

Covering everything from algorithms, cryptography, markets, and system design to time travel, space, food, and philosophy – here’s a list of readings that members of the a16z crypto team are personally reading and recommending this summer. Whether you’re looking for vacation reads for education or for entertainment, whether you prefer non-fiction or fiction (or science fiction!)… there’s something on this list for everyone.
check out the list here

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🚀🚀🚀 Six skills for company success

Which area of your business do you want to improve?

🔺 Product or service
🔺 Engineering
🔺 Design
🔺 Sales and marketing
🔺 Finance
🔺 Leadership, management and Team

The more things out of this list you are actually familiar with, the more likely you will succeed.

Improve your life ♻️

PGF500 Team

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, where he invests in new consumer startups.

Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills
Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. This was a big moment for me, and the result of a long relationship that began a decade ago, when Horowitz Andreessen Angel Fund funded a (now defunct) startup I had co-founded. One of the reasons I’ve been excited about being a professional investor is the ability to apply my skills as an operator. The same skills needed to grow new products can be used both to evaluate new startups to invest in, and once we’ve invested; to help them grow.

https://andrewchen.co/investor-metrics-deck/

 

 

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A 4-minute guide to defining your market size

This is the first in our series on how to grow your startup from seed stage (where you have developed your prototype with some angel funding) to being worthy of a series A investment.

The market size or total addressable market (TAM) is very likely the first filter any VC will use to screen your startup. If the TAM is too small, then your startup is an easy pass.

But in reality, most consumer-focused startups we see in Asia have very large TAMs, and only few B2B startups are targeting markets that are too small.

Nevertheless, you need to be able to define and quantify your TAM when pitching for investment.

Why is TAM so important?

Early-stage investors like us always look for companies who are capable of returning at least 50x on an investment. If the average seed-stage company in Hong Kong or Singapore is valued at around US$5 million, then we would need to see a path for a company to achieve a US$250 million valuation.

https://www.techinasia.com/talk/validating-tam