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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.

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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

TechCrunch

Prior to joining Sequoia, Chen worked at Emergence Capital and McKinsey. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups.

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Singapore-based sales productivity platform Nektar raises $2.15 million seed round

TechCrunch

Its seed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Insignia Venture Partners, Arka Venture Labs, Better Capital and Vietnam Investments Group. Demand Sage raises $3M to make sales and marketing data more accessible.

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When will IPOs return? The past may hold some clues

TechCrunch

Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. Capital was extremely cheap to borrow as interest rates dipped as low as 1.67% (compared to rates in the last few years bottoming out at 0.25%). Contributor.

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The Benefits of Patenting: When to Protect Your Inventions and Why

StartupNation

Despite the process being relatively laborious, if you believe that your company has created a truly unique invention, then it’s definitely worth the investment. An investment for the future. For example, Nicholas Woodman presented his patent in 2004 , to enable people to easily record their exciting life moments.

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Benchmarking ServiceNow's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tomasz Tunguz

The business was founded in 2004, but hit its stride 2009 and went public in 2012. Impressively, the company is investing more and more into engineering - exceeding 20% of revenues last year - likely developing broader feature set to enable additional up and cross sells. ServiceNow has recorded a better than 1.0

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The Characteristics of a Billion Dollar Consumer Hardware Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

Second, to benchmark GoPro’s capital needs, capital efficiency and attractiveness to investors. Founded in 2004, GoPro is about 10 years old and during the past few years has witnessed spectacular growth. Because SaaS companies have substantially higher gross margins, they can afford to invest more in both functions.

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