CM Weekly: GTC Takeaways, AVP’s impact, and Importance of GTM
Chris McCann's weekly newsletter on technology, startups, and venture capital.
I’m excited to share that we are launching a new accelerator at Race Capital, named Topline, which will be focused on infra/enterprise startups, refine their GTM, get in front of enterprise customers, and boost early revenue traction.
Accepted participants will get $250,000 on an uncapped SAFE note, $500,000+ in NVIDIA & cloud credits, and will get mentorship and to pitch customers from JP Morgan, Caterpillar, Morrison Forrester, the NBA, and many other enterprise buyers.
Applications are now open, would love to see you apply!
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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.
🗞️ Interesting Reads
Watching Jensen’s talk at NVIDIA GTC felt like being in a concert, here are some takeaways from his keynote.
In a stunning move the founders and most of the team of Inflection (raised $1.3B) were “acquihired” by Microsoft, putting Microsoft in an even stronger position in AI.
What the Apple Vision Pro means for the VR industry by the former Head of Oculus at Meta.
Banking as a service (BaaS) platforms are going to need to have to have a focus on compliance and working directly with banks.
Sales and GTM is just as important as engineering and product development.
PR is best done directly from the founder vs being intermediated through a PR agency.
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