Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

networking

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now?

opportunity

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

investment

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

investment

TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” More posts by this contributor. In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power.

venture capital

propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

In 2006, our group published a high-profile paper in Science on the concept of water filtration with nanotubes. There is still money to be made, but it needs to be used in different and more intelligent ways. But what inevitably happens is they end up relying on investors for strategic advice.

energy