Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Presuming the trend continues, and computational power becomes free, or near free, what new technologies are enabled by it? When I worked at Google in 2005, we would test individual machine learning models one or two at a time. The first manifestation of large scale, near-free compute I’ve seen is in machine learning.

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Impact Hub

MAY 20, 2021

The good news is that local entrepreneurs are creating innovative solutions to address this challenge. Annual food inflation in Nigeria reached 22.95% in March 2021 – the highest reading since October 2005 – according to a recent report by the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics.

sustainability 69

sustainability innovation enablement communities 69

Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 9, 2016

Johannsen argues in his book that most innovation comes at the intersection of fields, and Pearson is just one example. In 2005, an economist named Benjamin Jones published a paper called The Burden of Knowledge and the ‘Death of the Renaissance Man’: Is Innovation Getting Harder?

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

I initially worked as an analyst at a stock-broking firm until 2004 before embarking on my venture capital and private equity journey, where I made my first investments in Greater China before exiting via the London Stock Exchange later between 2005 and 2006. What qualities do you seek in start-up founders whose companies you would invest in?

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders. DropBox is one of those Ycombinator Cambridge winners that most investors missed, including me. None of the local VC firms invested.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That success has been bolstered by the fact that the UK is among the world’s most innovative financial services regulatory environments. Regulation is generally a blocker to innovation. The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2005, he helped to launch the startup Bazaarvoice, which provides data about retail customers’ shopping habits. . million, will be put toward “global expansion, talent acquisition and product innovation.” Hurt cofounded Austin, Texas-based Data.World in 2015 alongside Bryon Jacob, Jon Loyens and Matt Laessig.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

has had real-time payments since 2005 via the Faster Payments network. In Brazil, for example, Pix became the most popular payment method in the country in just two years—as well as the second-most used instant payments system in the world. Today, U.K. consumers use contactless payments for nearly 90% of in-person transactions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved. Pitch perfect, you might think.

investing 82

investing investment mix-use media 82

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. Let me explain. By then the open-source movement had really developed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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