Now more than ever applied research1frontier tech? deep tech science? tech? companies must approach technology with a strategy and market positioning in order to survive the gauntlet of research, science, and engineering in order to bridge the R&D gap to commercialization and fundraising. In many companies, these strategies feel emergent, but at Compound we tend to believe they optimally...
How companies should position and build their narratives from launch through the various stages of technology hype cycles
As narratives increase in value, a new generation of companies build on the power of perception, while markets race to fill every speculative void.
The progression of building Applied Research Organizations and how venture capital may be changing science and research development forever
I believe one of the most damaging pieces of advice to proliferate in the tech world over the past few years has been “being early is indistinguishable from being wrong”. There are many reasons why this is true in theory but as I’ve talked about for years, at this stage of technology development and penetration, whether you’re a technologist or capital allocator, if you’re not too early, you’re...
When an area becomes consensus but is still somewhat novel or hard to parse for investors, they often try to distill companies into very clear-cut and easily “findable” metrics in order to make decisions. In many cases, this wave of chaos, rapid change, and complexity pushes investors to retreat into discussing a constant in startups; Founders. And as one searches for Founder-Company...
What happens when we can facetune to something “better”, generate to something familiar, and filter to something different.
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