The financial model too simple not to build

Financial models give many early-stage operators pause: they connote complicated spreadsheets and prerequisite knowledge. What if we told you one of the best models to start with is one of the simplest?

Meet the Financial Hypothesis.

At its core, a financial hypothesis is a distilled, simplified model that answers the critical question: "What do we have to believe to achieve our goals?"

Rather than drowning in a sea of hundreds of possible metrics, this approach hones in on the three to five key inputs that will make or break the company's journey towards profitability or its next compelling financing round.

In our latest CFO Playbook, learn Operating Partner Jeff Epstein and CFO Council member's powerful tool for aligning boards, management teams, and their growing companies. 

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Four AI use cases for vision and video

The emergence of multimodal models has created opportunities for vertical AI to impact a much larger share of the economy than previously imagined by expanding beyond text-based tasks and workflows.

Our investors identified four initial use cases for vision with vertical applications:

1. Data extraction from pictures, PDFs, or images of other unstructured documents.
2. Augmenting jobs that currently involve human visual inspection.
3. Generating 2D and 3D designs.
4. Video analytics. 

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