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

This is going to be BIG.

The venture asset class seems to have already decided that AI is the next great investment opportunity, but I’m not so sure it’s going to disrupt business and create the across-the-board wealth that has been predicted. Technology has already made the world pretty efficient.

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Analyze All the Things : Data Omniscience with Omni

Tomasz Tunguz

In 2004, Tableau emerged from the Stanford campus to deliver their application to the users. Cloud databases ushered in an opportunity to centralize that data analysis again. The pendulum between these two states started with centralization during the 2000s with BI products from Microstrategy, Cognos, BusinessObjects, & Hyperion.

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5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs

TechCrunch

These investors can also be hesitant to bet on emerging managers, whom they may perceive as higher risk than established investors, even though Cambridge Associates data shows emerging firms made up 72% of the top returning firms between 2004 and 2016. As a result, capital can be concentrated in certain areas.

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HealthTech News Roundup

Dream It

The study looked at 316,244 women whose health insurance switched from a low-deductible plan to a high-deductible plan between 2004 and 2014. An article in NPR describes a recent study that linked high-deductible health plans to delayed diagnosis and treatment. months longer for diagnostic breast imaging, 2.7 months for first biopsy, 6.6

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Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs? Don’t sit on your founders’ boards

TechCrunch

Khosla and his firm, founded in 2004, is raising about $3 billion across three new funds , according to regulatory filings. billion for a Fund VIII, $1 billion for a second opportunity fund and $400 million for a new seed fund. Last year, the firm raised over $550 million for its first Opportunity Fund after taking in $1.4

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The Coming Zombie Startup Apocalypse

This is going to be BIG.

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public.

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Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives a Mission to Connect People With Popongo

StartupNation

America truly is the land of opportunity, especially to people who grow up in third world countries and fight adversity every day while seeking to create a better life for themselves and their loved ones. Creating Popongo was one such opportunity, a chance to challenge myself as well as fill a need and connect people.

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